Permeability reduction of a natural fracture under net dissolution by hydrothermal fluids

Details Permeability reduction of a natural fracture under net dissolution by hydrothermal fluids Permeability reduction of a natural fracture under net dissolution by hydrothermal fluids

Oct 2003

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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 20, pp. SDE 1-1, CiteID 2020, DOI 10.1029/2003GL017575

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Physical Properties Of Rocks: Fracture And Flow, Physical Properties Of Rocks: Permeability And Porosity, Physical Properties Of Rocks: Instruments And Techniques, Physical Properties Of Rocks: Thermal Properties, Tectonophysics: Hydrothermal Systems (8424)

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Flow-through tests are completed on a natural fracture in novaculite at temperatures of 20°C, 80°C, 120°C, and 150°C. Measurements of fluid and dissolved mass fluxes, and concurrent X-ray CT imaging, are used to constrain the progress of mineral dissolution and its effect on transport properties. Under constant effective stress, fracture permeability decreases monotonically with an increase in temperature. Increases in temperature cause closure of the fracture, although each increment in temperature causes a successively smaller effect. The initial differential fluid pressure-drop across the fracture increases by two orders of magnitude through the 900 h duration of the test, consistent with a reduction of an equivalent hydraulic aperture by a factor of five. Both the magnitude and rate of aperture reduction is consistent with the dissolution of stressed asperities in contact, as confirmed by the hydraulic and mass efflux data. These observations are confirmed by CT imaging, resolved to 35 microns, and define the potentially substantial influence that benign changes in environmental conditions of stress, temperature, and chemistry may exert on transport properties.

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