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Flow and Transport During Contact Metamorphism and Hydrothermal Activity: Examples from the Oslo Rift

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Emplacement of a magma into a relatively colder environment leads to contact metamorphism and almost invariably to flow of fluids and associated advective transport. The fluids may be derived from the cooling magma (magmatic fluids), from near-surface environments (meteoric or sea water) or from metamorphic devolatilization reactions (metamorphic fluids). Fluid flow around cooling intrusives plays an important role as a mechanism of heat transport on a global scale; nearly 25% of the heat loss from the earth’s surface is transported by circulating fluids above magma chambers at mid-ocean ridges (Sclater, Jaupart and Galson, 1980). Moreover, mass transport or metasomatic effects of fluid flow observed in contact metamorphic environments are numerous and sometimes of great economic importance (see review by Barton et al., 1991).

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Jamtveit, B., Grorud, H.F., Ragnarsdottir, K.V. (1997). Flow and Transport During Contact Metamorphism and Hydrothermal Activity: Examples from the Oslo Rift. In: Jamtveit, B., Yardley, B.W.D. (eds) Fluid Flow and Transport in Rocks. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1533-6_4

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