{"title":"Reactive Transport at the Crossroads","authors":"C. Steefel","doi":"10.2138/rmg.2019.85.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2019.85.1","url":null,"abstract":"Reactive transport in the Earth and Environmental Sciences is at a crossroads today. The discipline has reached a level of maturity well beyond what could be demonstrated even 15 years ago. This is shown now by the successes with which complex and in many cases coupled behavior have been described in a number of natural Earth environments, ranging from corroding storage tanks leaking radioactive Cs into the vadose zone (Zachara et al. 2002; Steefel et al. 2003; Lichtner et al. 2004), to field scale sorption behavior of uranium (Davis et al. 2004; Li et al. 2011; Yabusaki et al. 2017) to the successful prediction of mineral and pore solution profiles in a 226 ka chemical weathering profile (Maher et al. 2009), to the prediction of ion transport in compacted bentonite and clay rocks (Tournassat and Steefel 2015; Soler et al. 2019; Tournassat and Steefel 2019, this volume). Yet for those thinking deeply about Earth and Environmental Science problems impacted by reactive transport processes, it is clear that many challenges remain.","PeriodicalId":439110,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132164287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling Reactive Transport Processes in Fractures","authors":"H. Deng, N. Spycher","doi":"10.2138/rmg.2019.85.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2019.85.3","url":null,"abstract":"Fractures are ubiquitous and important features in the Earth subsurface (Berkowitz 2002; Pyrak-Nolte et al. 2015). They are created as a result of rock failure when the critical stress (i.e., fracture toughness) is exceeded, or in the case of subcritical crack growth, when cracks propagate under stress conditions below fracture toughness, facilitated by chemical reactions (Atkinson 1984). The necessary conditions for fracture growth can be created by natural unloading from land erosion (Engelder 1987), tectonic events (Molnar et al. 2007), and crystal growth in presence of fluids supersaturated with respect to solid phases (Royne and Jamtveit 2015). Fractures can also be artificially created for enhanced energy recovery, through excess fluid pressure and change of thermal stress, as in the case of geothermal energy extraction and unconventional oil and gas production (McClure and Horne 2014; Lampe and Stolz 2015). Fractures can be observed by surveying rock outcrops, inferred by fluid flow and geochemical measurements, and detected using geophysical techniques (Berkowitz 2002; St Clair et al. 2015; Walton et al. 2015).When open, fractures act as preferential flow pathways because of their high permeability, and thus typically control fluid migration and solute transport in fractured rocks. For this reason, fractures are avoided when siting and designing geologic isolation systems, such as for nuclear waste and CO2 storage, in order to prevent undesired fluid and chemical migration (Kovscek 2002; Lewicki et al. 2007; Birkholzer et al. 2012). In the Earth’s critical zone, fractures control the availability of water for rock weathering and hence the development of the regolith layer (Brantley et al. 2017). It has also become accepted that weathering itself typically controls fracture permeability in hard rock aquifers (Lachassagne et al. 2011).","PeriodicalId":439110,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry","volume":"320 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131908757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acid Water–Rock–Cement Interaction and Multicomponent Reactive Transport Modeling","authors":"J. Cama, J. Soler, C. Ayora","doi":"10.2138/rmg.2018.85.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2018.85.15","url":null,"abstract":"This work has been financed by the CGL2016-78783-C2-R and CGL2017-82331-R projects (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), with contribution of FEDER funds, and the 2017SGR 1733 Catalan Government project. We would like to thank Jordi Belles, Natalia Moreno, Rafael Bartoli and Merce Cabanas (IDAEA), Eva Pelegri and Maite Romero (SCTBarcelona University) and Jose Antonio Jimenez (CENIM) for analytical assistance. We are indebted to Francisco Macias (Huelva University) for field sampling assistance. We also wish to thank two anonymous reviewers whose constructive comments have greatly improved the manuscript.","PeriodicalId":439110,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132492246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stable Isotope Fractionation by Transport and Transformation","authors":"J. Druhan, M. Winnick, M. Thullner","doi":"10.2138/rmg.2019.85.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2019.85.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439110,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128364397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Dwivedi, Jinyun Tang, N. Bouskill, K. Georgiou, S. S. Chacon, W. Riley
{"title":"Abiotic and Biotic Controls on Soil Organo–Mineral Interactions: Developing Model Structures to Analyze Why Soil Organic Matter Persists","authors":"D. Dwivedi, Jinyun Tang, N. Bouskill, K. Georgiou, S. S. Chacon, W. Riley","doi":"10.2138/rmg.2019.85.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2019.85.11","url":null,"abstract":"Soil organic matter (SOM) represents the single largest actively cycling reservoir of terrestrial organic carbon, accounting for more than three times as much carbon as that present in the atmosphere or terrestrial vegetation (Schmidt et al. 2011; Lehmann and Kleber 2015). SOM is vulnerable to decomposition to either CO2 or CH4, which can increase atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations (GHGs) and serve as a positive feedback to climate change. Conversely, the formation and stabilization of SOM within aggregates or associated with soil minerals can lead to carbon sequestration, representing a negative feedback to climate change. However, the conundrum as to why some SOM decomposes rapidly, while other thermodynamically unstable SOM can persist on centennial time scales (Hedges et al. 2000), leads to substantial uncertainty in model structures, as well as uncertainty in the predictability of the land carbon sink trajectory.","PeriodicalId":439110,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134554979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Arora, D. Dwivedi, B. Faybishenko, R. Jana, H. Wainwright
{"title":"Understanding and Predicting Vadose Zone Processes","authors":"B. Arora, D. Dwivedi, B. Faybishenko, R. Jana, H. Wainwright","doi":"10.2138/rmg.2019.85.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2019.85.10","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Arora, Bhavna; Dwivedi, Dipankar; Faybishenko, boris; Jana, Raghavendra; Wainwright, Haruko | Editor(s): Druhan, Jennifer; Tournassat, Christophe","PeriodicalId":439110,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry","volume":"os-26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127773275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Watershed Reactive Transport","authors":"Li Li","doi":"10.2138/rmg.2018.85.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2018.85.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439110,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115330088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microbial Controls on the Biogeochemical Dynamics in the Subsurface","authors":"M. Thullner, P. Régnier","doi":"10.2138/rmg.2019.85.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2019.85.9","url":null,"abstract":"Biogeochemical processes are of tremendous importance for determining the fate of many organic and inorganic compounds in the subsurface. Most global elemental cycles involve biogeochemical transformation, and the recycling of carbon and nutrients relies almost exclusively on biogeochemical processes. In particular, the majority of natural organic compounds are biogeochemically reactive, but also a large number of anthropogenic organic carbon compounds can be biogeochemically transformed, for instance, during the biodegradation of organic contaminants. Furthermore, inorganic compounds such as e.g., many nitrogen, phosphorus or sulfur compounds, metal compounds or minerals are directly or indirectly affected by biogeochemical reactions. To which extent and at which conditions a biogeochemical reaction takes place depends not only on the properties of the involved chemical reactants and products but also on the behavior of the microbial community (or communities) catalyzing the biogeochemical transformation. Porous media—in particular natural porous media—are complex and often heterogeneous structures, which imposes severe challenges in determining the exact physical, chemical and ecological conditions the microbial community is exposed to and to which extent it is able to provide any ecosystem service, such as the catalysis of a biogeochemical reaction.","PeriodicalId":439110,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry","volume":"167 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115295024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industrial Deployment of Reactive Transport Simulation: An Application to Uranium In situ Recovery","authors":"V. Lagneau, O. Regnault, M. Descostes","doi":"10.2138/rmg.2019.85.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2019.85.16","url":null,"abstract":"The development of reactive transport soared during the 1990’s, driven by the necessity to demonstrate the long-term efficiency of radioactive waste repositories (Bildstein et al. 2019; Claret, 2019; Cama et al. 2019, both this volume). The approach, based on a rigorous description of processes and their coupling, provides a basis of confidence to bridge the gap in time and space between knowledge gained in laboratory experiments and the dimension and lifetime of a high-level waste repository. Reactive transport codes progressively increased in complexity, as more processes were included to account e.g., for variably saturated flow, heat transport and more complex chemical processes (Steefel et al. 2015). In the meantime, improved algorithms and computer power opened the way for larger simulations.","PeriodicalId":439110,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125373809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reactive Transport in Evolving Porous Media","authors":"N. Seigneur, K. Mayer, C. Steefel","doi":"10.2138/rmg.2019.85.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2019.85.7","url":null,"abstract":"Reactive transport modeling is a process-based approach that accounts for advection, diffusion, dispersion and a multitude of biogeochemical reactions. The occurrence of these reactions, by nature, tends to affect the properties of porous media in many ways (Tenthorey and Gerald 2006). If these alteration reactions are significant, then feedback mechanisms could occur that influence the flow of groundwater as well as the migration of solutes and gases through porous media (Le Gallo et al. 1998; Kaszuba et al. 2005; Jin et al. 2013). In addition, changes induced by the reactions on the solid grains can also affect the rates of the reactions themselves (Hao et al. 2012; Harrison et al. 2017). A prime example for reactive transport in evolving porous media is the dissolution of mineral phases. If dissolution reactions are substantial, the porosity, i.e., the void space between grains or apertures of fractures in jointed rocks, will increase. Such an increase in porosity commonly has secondary effects, by altering the connectivity or larger scale pores in the porous medium under consideration (Navarre-Sitchler et al. 2009). Together, these changes in porosity and connectivity can substantially affect flow and transport processes by modifying the key transport parameters such as the medium’s permeability and tortuosity, leading to alteration of the groundwater flow regime and modification of transport pathways. The impact of these changes can affect transport in the water phase as well as in the gas phase. In addition, because mineral dissolution reshapes the surface of the dissolving phases or leads to the complete dissolution of smaller particles, the system’s reactivity can be affected as well, leading to a direct feedback on reaction progress and rates (Noiriel et al. 2009).","PeriodicalId":439110,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122245699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}