The role of fluids in crustal processes / Geophysics Study Committee, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council.

Based on papers presented at an American Geophysical Union symposium.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview and recommendations. Background. Mass and energy transport in deforming the Earth's crust / John D. Bredehoeft and Denis L. Norton -- Pore fluid pressure near magma chambers / Denis L. Norton -- Evolution and style of fracture permeability in intrusion-centered hydrothermal systems / Spencer R. Titley -- Fluid dynamics during progressive regional metamorphism / John V. Walther -- Oxygen and hydrogen isotope constraints on the deep circulation of surface waters into zones of hydrothermal metamorphism and melting / Hugh P. Taylor, jr. -- Hydrothermal systems associated with regional metamorphism and crustal anatexis: example from the Pyrenees, France / Stephen M. Wickham and Hugh P. Taylor, jr. -- Time-dependent hydraulics of the Earth's crust / Amos M. Nur and Joseph Walder -- COCORP and fluids in the crust / Jack E. Oliver -- Smoluchowski's dilemma revisited: a note on the fluid-pressure history of the central Appalachian fold-thrust belt / Terry Engelder -- Fluid pressure history in subduction zones: evidence from fluid inclusions in the Kodiak accretionary complex, Alaska / Peter Vrolijk and Georgianna Myers -- Degassing of carbon dioxide as a possible source of high pore pressures in the crust / John D. Bredehoeft and Steven E. Ingebritsen.

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