Peter J. Ortoleva
This monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of geological systems which become spatially organized through the mediation of chemical processes. The treatment is based on a mathematical approach. The intended readership includes researchers and advanced undergraduate and
graduate students in all branches of geology as well as scientists and mathematicians concerned with nonlinear dynamics, numerical analysis, self-organization, nonlinear waves and dynamics, and phase transition phenomena. The work could also serve as a basis for a special topics course in
mathematics, chemistry or physics.
1. Introduction
2. Feedback, Instability, and Bifurcation
3. Oscillatory Zoning in Crystals
4. Reaction-Transport Modeling
5. Flow-Driven Reaction Fronts
6. Dissipative Structures at Reaction Fronts
7. Reaction-Front Morphology
8. Liesegang Banding
9. Unstable
Coarsening Fronts and Precipitate Patterning
10. Mechanochemical Coupling
11. Metamorphic Differentiation
12. Diagenetic Differentiated Mechanochemical Structures
13. Geodes, Concretiobs, Agates, and Orbicules
14. Reaction-Driven Advection
15. Compartmentation of a
Sedimentary Basin
16. Oscillatory Fluid Flow through the Fracturing and Healing Cycle
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