Hydrogeology and Mechanics of Subduction Zone Forearcs: Fluid Flow and Pore Pressure
There are parts in our world that Mother Earth has under her strict control and there is nothing that we can do about it to change it and those parts are best known as subduction zones. A subduction zone is an area on Earth where two tectonic plates move towards one another and one slides under the other. This subduction zones are interconnected with fluid flows and pore pressures. The fluid flow that is produce from these phenomena is really dangerous but they can be study with some generalized equation in which describe the subsurface fluid flow. Fluids entering this subduction zones on the incoming plate contained in intergranular and fracture porosity in the sediments and igneous crust which force the forearc to liberate powerful pressures creating tsunamis and other phenomena. In conclusion the studies of this type of flows are very important because with all this data we can improve our technology to counter this kind of phenomena.
