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Description / Table of Contents: Abstract Economically viable concentrations of mineral resources are uncommon in Earth's crust. Most ore deposits that were mined in the past or are currently being extracted were found at or near Earth's surface, often serendipitously. To meet the future demand for mineral resources, exploration success hinges on identifying targets at depth. Achieving this requires accurate and informed models of the Earth's crust that are consistent with all available geological, geochemical and geophysical information, paired with an understanding of how ore-forming systems relate to Earth's evolving structure. Contributions to this volume address the future resources challenge by (i) applying advanced microscale geochemical detection and characterization methods, (ii) introducing more rigorous 3D Earth models, (iii) exploring critical behaviour and coupled processes, (iv) evaluating the role of geodynamic and tectonic setting and (v) applying 3D structural models to characterize specific ore-forming systems.

Description / Table of Contents: Characterization of ore-forming systems – advances and challenges / Klaus Gessner, Tom Blenkinsop and Peter Sorjonen-Ward / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 1-6, 23 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.16 --- Advanced microscale geochemical detection and characterization methods --- Microscale data to macroscale processes: a review of microcharacterization applied to mineral systems / Mark A. Pearce, Bélinda M. Godel, Louise A. Fisher, Louise E. Schoneveld, James S. Cleverley, Nicholas H. S. Oliver and Michael Nugus / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 7-39, 19 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.3 --- Development of more rigorous 3D Earth models --- Uncertainty estimation for a geological model of the Sandstone greenstone belt, Western Australia – insights from integrated geological and geophysical inversion in a Bayesian inference framework / J. Florian Wellmann, Miguel de la Varga, Ruth E. Murdie, Klaus Gessner and Mark Jessell / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 41-56, 26 October 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.12 --- Geologically driven 3D modelling of physical rock properties in support of interpreting the seismic response of the Lalor volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, Snow Lake, Manitoba, Canada / Ernst Schetselaar, Gilles Bellefleur, James Craven, Eric Roots, Saeid Cheraghi, Pejman Shamsipour, Antoine Caté, Patrick Mercier-Langevin, Najib El Goumi, Randolph Enkin and Matthew Salisbury / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 57-79, 28 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.5 --- Critical behaviour and coupled processes --- Coupling of fluid flow to permeability development in mid- to upper crustal environments: a tale of three pressures / Bruce E. Hobbs and Alison Ord / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 81-120, 26 October 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.9 --- Episodic modes of operation in hydrothermal gold systems: Part I. Deformation, mineral reactions and chaos / Alison Ord and Bruce E. Hobbs / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 121-146, 20 February 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.14 --- Episodic modes of operation in hydrothermal gold systems: Part II. A model for gold deposition / Bruce E. Hobbs and Alison Ord / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 147-164, 18 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.15 --- Spatial organization of gold and alteration mineralogy in hydrothermal systems: wavelet analysis of drillcore from Sunrise Dam Gold Mine, Western Australia / Mark A. Munro, Alison Ord and Bruce E. Hobbs / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 165-204, 31 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.10 --- Textural changes of graphitic carbon by tectonic and hydrothermal processes in an active plate boundary fault zone, Alpine Fault, New Zealand / Martina Kirilova, Virginia G. Toy, Nick Timms, Angela Halfpenny, Catriona Menzies, Dave Craw, Olivier Beyssac, Rupert Sutherland, John Townend, Carolyn Boulton, Brett M. Carpenter, Alan Cooper, Jason Grieve, Timothy Little, Luiz Morales, Chance Morgan, Hiroshi Mori, Katrina M. Sauer, Anja M. Schleicher, Jack Williams and Lisa Craw / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 205-223, 15 November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.13 --- Role of geodynamic and tectonic setting --- Tropicana translated: a foreland thrust system imbricate fan setting for c. 2520 Ma orogenic gold mineralization at the northern margin of the Albany–Fraser Orogen, Western Australia / S. A. Occhipinti, I. M. Tyler, C. V. Spaggiari, R. J. Korsch, C. L. Kirkland, R. H. Smithies, K. Martin and M. T. D. Wingate / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 225-245, 22 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.6 --- Identifying mineral prospectivity using 3D magnetotelluric, potential field and geological data in the east Kimberley, Australia / M. D. Lindsay, J. Spratt, S. A. Occhipinti, A. R. A. Aitken, M. C. Dentith, J. A. Hollis and I. M. Tyler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 247-268, 8 August 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.8 --- The relationship between mineralization and tectonics at the Kainantu gold–copper deposit, Papua New Guinea / Tom Blenkinsop, Gerard Tripp and Dave Gillen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 269-288, 26 October 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.11 --- Crustal fluid flow in hot continental extension: tectonic framework of geothermal areas and mineral deposits in western Anatolia / Klaus Gessner, Vanessa Markwitz and Talip Güngör / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 289-311, 28 July 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.7 --- Application of 3D structural modelling to characterize specific ore-forming systems --- The Windimurra Igneous Complex: an Archean Bushveld? / Timothy J. Ivanic, Oliver Nebel, John Brett and Ruth E. Murdie / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 313-348, 3 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.1 --- Delineating the structural controls on the genesis of iron oxide–Cu–Au deposits through implicit modelling: a case study from the E1 Group, Cloncurry District, Australia / George Case, Thomas Blenkinsop, Zhaoshan Chang, Jan Marten Huizenga, Richard Lilly and John McLellan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 349-384, 22 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.4 --- Assessment of lithological, geochemical and structural controls on gold distribution in the Nalunaq gold deposit, South Greenland using three-dimensional implicit modelling / Robin-Marie Bell, Jochen Kolb and Tod E. Waight / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 453, 385-405, 19 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP453.2

Description / Table of Contents: Concepts and methods of fractal geometry penetrate various branches of human knowledge to an increasing degree. This tendency is particularly striking in the geosciences, because many processes occurring in and on the Earth result in time dependences and spatial patterns that have a fractal character. The contributions in this volume arose from the "3rd International Symposium on Fractals and Dynamic Systems in Geosciences", held at Stara Lesna, Slovakia in June, 1997. The volume contains new ideas and applications of fractal geometry in such diverse branches of geoscience as engineering geology, the physics of the lithosphere (including faulting, seismicity, and fluid flow), and climate behavior.