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Continental Scientific Drilling to Investigate Brine Evolution and Fluid Circulation in Active Hydrothermal Systems

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Book cover Observation of the Continental Crust through Drilling I

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A major objective of studying active hydrothermal systems is to gain information that can be used to help formulate and test models of coupled hydrothermal-magma systems, and mineral genesis in shallow magmatic environments. Many researchers have discussed the evolution of aqueous fluids from crystallizing magma in relation to ore deposition, including Bowen (1933), Emmons (1933), Fenner (1933), Lindgren (1937), Neuman (1948), Burnham (1967, 1979), Fournier (1968, 1972), Holland (1972), Phillips (1973), Norton and Cathles (1973, 1979), Whitney (1975), Cunningham (1978), Henley and McNabb (1978), and Henley and Ellis (1983). Models for fluid flow in hydrothermal systems have been developed by Elder (1965), Lister (1974, 1980, 1983), Ribando and others (1976), Cathles (1977, 1980, 1983), Norton and Knapp (1977), Norton and Knigth (1977), Norton (1978), Torrance and Sheu (1978), Fehn and Cathles (1979), Norton and Taylor (1979), Hartline and Lister (1981), Knapp and Norton (1981), Hardee (1982), and Sleep (1983).

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    C. Barry Raleigh

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Fournier, R.O. (1985). Continental Scientific Drilling to Investigate Brine Evolution and Fluid Circulation in Active Hydrothermal Systems. In: Raleigh, C.B. (eds) Observation of the Continental Crust through Drilling I. Exploration of the Deep Continental Crust. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45601-5_9

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