Porosity, permeability, and their relationship in granite, basalt, and tuff

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Title: Porosity, permeability, and their relationship in granite, basalt, and tuff

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This report discusses the porosity, storage, and permeability of fractured (mainly crystalline) rock types proposed as host rock for nuclear waste repositories. The emphasis is on the inter-relationships of these properties, but a number of reported measurements are included as well. The porosity of rock is shown to consist of fracture porosity and matrix porosity; techniques are described for determining the total interconnected porosity through both laboratory and field measurement. Permeability coefficient, as obtained by experiments ranging from laboratory to crustal scale, is discussed. Finally, the problem of determining the relationship between porosity and permeability is discussed. There is no simple, all encompassing relationship that describes the dependence of permeability upon porosity. However, two particular cases have been successfully analyzed: flow through a single rough fracture, and flow through isotropic porous rock. These two cases are discussed in this report.

Publication Date:: 1983-04-01

Research Org.:: INTERA Environmental Consultants, Inc., Houston, TX (USA)

OSTI Identifier:: 6116963

Report Number(s):: ONWI-458
ON: DE83011519

DOE Contract Number:: AC06-76RL01830

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Resource Relation:: Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products. Original copy available until stock is exhausted

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 58 GEOSCIENCES; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; BASALT; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; GRANITES; TUFF; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURES; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; FAILURES; IGNEOUS ROCKS; PLUTONIC ROCKS; ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; 580300* - Mineralogy, Petrology, & Rock Mechanics- (-1989); 052002 - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Disposal & Storage

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