Book description
Frontiers in Geofluids
is a collection of invited papers chosen to highlight recent
developments in our understanding of geological fluids in different
parts of the Earth, and published to mark the first ten years of
publication of the journal Geofluids
. The scope of the volume ranges from the fundamental properties of
fluids and the phase relationships of fluids encountered in nature, to
case studies of the role of fluids in natural processes. New
developments in analytical and theoretical approaches to understanding
fluid compositions, fluid properties, and geological fluid dynamics
across a wide range of environments are included. A recurrent theme of
research published in Geofluids
is the way in which similar approaches can be applied to geological
fluids in very different settings and this is reflected in the diverse
range of applications of fluid studies that are included here. They
include deep groundwater flow, hydrocarbons in faulted sedimentary
basins, hydrothermal ores, and multiphase flow in mid-ocean ridge
systems. Other topics covered are geothermal waters, crustal
metamorphism, and fluids in magmatic systems.
The book will be of
great interest to researchers and students interested in crustal and
mantle fluids of all sorts.
Bruce Yardley is Professor in the School of Earth
and Environment at the University of Leeds, UK, and was a founding
editor of the journal Geofluids. His research concerns the nature and
role of fluids in the crust, including metamorphic processes,
hydrothermal ore systems and sedimentary basins. He obtained his PhD
at the University of Bristol in 1975, and has been at the University
of Leeds since 1985. He held a Harkness Fellowship at the University
of Washington, Seattle, and has recently been a Humboldt Awardee at
the Deutsches GeoForschungZentrum, Potsdam.
Craig Manning is a Professor of Geology and Geochemistry in the
Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of California
Los Angeles. He received BA degrees in Geology and in Geography from
the University of Vermont, and MS and PhD degrees in Geology from
Stanford University. His research focuses on experimental and
theoretical study of geologic fluids at high pressure and temperature.
Grant Garven is a Professor in the Department of Geology and in
the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Tufts
University, near Boston. Originally trained as a field geologist in
the Canadian Shield, his career has mostly focused on mega-scale
groundwater flow in sedimentary basins and related geologic processes.
He received his BSc in Geology at the University of Regina, MS in
Hydrology at the University of Arizona, and PhD degree at the
University of British Columbia.
