Hydrothermal Processes and Mineral Systems

• Main Author: Pirajno, Franco. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Geography.; Geology, economic.; Mines and mineral resources.; Planetology.; Earth Sciences.; Economic Geology.; Mineral Resources.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8613-7

Hydrothermal processes on Earth have played an important role in the evolution of our planet. These processes link the lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere in continuously evolving dynamic systems. Terrestrial hydrothermal processes have been active since water condensed to form the hydrosphere, m...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Peter A. Cawood. - Acknowledgements. - 1. Water and hydrothermal fluids on Earth
• 2. Hydrothermal processes and wall rock alteration
• 3. Tectonic settings, geodynamics and temporal evolution of hydrothermal mineral systems
• 4. Intrusion-related hydrothermal mineral systems
• 5. Porphyry systems; fossil and active epithermal systems
• 6. Skarn systems
• 7. Submarine hydrothermal mineral systems
• 8. Metalliferous sediments and sedimentary rock-hosted stratiform and/or stratabound hydrothermal mineral systems
• 9. Orogenic, amagmatic and hydrothermal mineral systems of uncertain origin
• 10. Hydrothermal systems and the biosphere
• 11. Hydrothermal processes associated with meteorite impacts. 12. Hydrothermal processes and systems on other planets and satellites
• 13. Uranium hydrothermal mineral systems
• References. - Index.