Physical Principles of Sedimentary Basin Analysis

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Preliminaries 2. Properties of porous media 3. Linear elasticity and continuum mechanics 4. Compressibility of rocks and sediments 5. Burial histories 6. Heat flow 7. Subsidence 8. Rheology: fracture and flow 9. Flexure of the lithosphere 10. Gravity and gravity anomalies 11. Quartz cementation of sandstones 12. Overpressure and compaction: exact solutions 13. Fluid flow: basic equations 14. Fluid flow: examples 15. Wells 16. Appendix: Fourier series, the discrete Fourier transform and the fast Fourier transform References Index.