Dear all,
We would like to announce a session at EGU 2009 on the subject of
Quantitative approaches to hydrothermal systems.
Please consider participating, and help making this an exciting
cross-disciplinary series of presentations.
Conveners:
Dr Klaus Gessner: [log in to unmask]
Dr Alok Porwal: [log in to unmask]
Dr Peter Sorjonen-Ward: [log in to unmask]
Details:
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Quantitative approaches to hydrothermal systems
Quantitative methods are widely used for characterization of hydrothermal
mineral systems and in mineral prospectivity analysis. These methods
generally involve 2D or 3D modelling of geological data using sophisticated
computational tools such as numerical simulation, geophysical inversion,
image processing and visualization, GIS and spatial analyses, data mining
and knowledge discovery, etc. These computer-based techniques allow
integrated interpretations of a wide variety of exploration data, e.g.,
lithological, tectonostratigraphic, structural, geochemical, geothermal,
geophysical and multispectral/hyperspectral remote sensing data, and thus
lead to significantly improved understanding of mineral systems. An
important utilitarian outcome of these techniques is mineral prospectivity
mapping.
Because hydrothermal mineral systems may share many characteristics with
present-day geothermal systems, the quantitative techniques developed for
mineralization systems studies are being increasingly and successfully
applied to geothermal system studies.
This session provides a platform for the latest research in quantitative
methods as applied to hydrothermal ore deposits and geothermal energy
systems. Contributions are invited from prospective authors with interest in
one or more of the following research themes in relation to hydrothermal and
geothermal system studies:
. Numerical models of rock deformation, heat transfer, fluid flow, and
reactive transport processes
. Visualisation, modelling and spatial analysis of geological data such
as lithological, tectonostratigraphic, structural, geochemical, geothermal,
geophysical and multispectral/hyperspectral remote sensing data;
. geophysical inversion;
. multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing;
. GIS-based or GIS-assisted prospectivity mapping of mineral deposits and
geothermal energy fields
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Dr Klaus Gessner
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Exploration Targeting
School of Earth and Environment M006
The University of Western Australia: CRICOS Provider No. 0126G
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
Australia
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
web: http://www.segs.uwa.edu.au/staff/klaus.gessner
P: +61 8 6488 7148
F: +61 8 6488 1178
Computational Geoscience
CSIRO Exploration and Mining
26 Dick Perry Ave
Kensington WA 6102
Australia
P: +61 8 6436 8627
F: +61 8 6436 8555
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