GEO 371T Basin Geomechanics

GEO 371T Basin Geomechanics
Fall 2024, Mon/Wed 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Unique #26965
EPS 4.104

Peter B. Flemings

Link to Syllabus: GEO 371T Basin Geomechanics

This course provides a broad overview of geomechanics and geofluids to the graduate student or upper–level undergraduate with a modest quantitative background. It provides you with the technical foundation and physical insight to explore how fluids drive geologic processes. You will characterize pressure and stress, explore the origin of overpressure, and examine how pressure and stress couple. You will learn how sedimentation generates overpressure, how hydraulic fractures form, how C02 is trapped in the subsurface, and how submarine landslides are generated. You will explore how subsurface fluid injection causes earthquakes. A highlight of the course is a field trip to California to study these processes. I practice problem-based learning and I provide exercises that build your theoretical understanding and illustrate the remarkable ways that we can use subsurface data to characterize pressure and stress in basin systems.  

GeoFluids class in front of huge natural hydraulic fracture (Santa Cruz, Ca.)

Graduate student Zach Murphy describes hydraulic fracturing.