Geofluids provides an international forum for original research into the role of fluids in mineralogical, chemical, and structural evolution of the Earth's crust. Its explicit aim is to disseminate ideas across the range of sub-disciplines in which Geofluids research is carried out. To this end, authors are encouraged to stress the transdisciplinary relevance of their research, and to make their work as accessible as possible to readers from other sub-disciplines.

Geofluids emphasizes both chemical and physical aspects of subsurface fluids throughout the Earth's crust (although excluding silicate melts). Geofluids spans studies of groundwater, terrestrial or submarine geothermal fluids, basinal brines, petroleum, metamorphic waters or magmatic fluids.

Articles may describe theoretical or observational studies, explore the geologic, geochemical, or geophysical attributes of subsurface fluids, quantify the geologic controls on permeability, geochemical transport and heat transport, or document applied aspects of crustal fluid behaviour. Examples of  areas covered include, but are not restricted to:

• composition and origins of geofluids
• hydrodynamics of sedimentary basins; role of regional groundwater flow in geologic processes
• chemical or physical behaviour of geofluids in porous or fractured rocks
• palaeohydrology of flow regimes as inferred from isotope systematics and fluid inclusion studies
• relations between past or present fluid flow and geothermics of the Earth's crust
• structural and seismic controls on deep fluid migration
• the role of fluids in crustal deformation
• role of groundwater chemistry in landscape evolution, soil development, and evaporite formation
• mechanisms of petroleum generation, migration, and the interaction of hydrocarbons with groundwater
• reactive flow in rock media
• fluid flow, heat transport, and chemical metasomatism associated with hydrothermal ores
• geochemistry of dissolution, transport, and precipitation by fluids
• mathematical and experimental studies of geofluid migration
• fluid flow accompanying metamorphism or magmatic crystallisation
• fluid pressure regimes in the crust

'The appearance of Geofluids is symbolic of the quiet yet dramatic revolution in geology over the past few decades. It represents the coming of age of the study of geological fluids.'
From the review Forget the Hammer, Go with the Flow Times Higher Education Supplement, David Alderton, May 2004

Editorial - February 2009
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NEW Special Issue: Gas Geochemistry
This thematic edition, which includes 11 case studies presented during the 9th ICGG held in Taipei, 2007, covers a wide range of topics from both on-land and submarine geothermal, seepage/venting studies to gas flux estimation from mangroves and optimum sequestration depth for CO2 geological storage. 

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The following articles demonstrate some of the topics published in the journal over the last few years.

An experimental and modeling study of Na-rich hydrothermal alteration
J. Hara, N. Tsuchiya

Comparing closed system, flow-through and fluid infiltration geochemical modelling: examples from K-alteration in the Ernest Henry Fe-oxide–Cu–Au system
J. S. Cleverley, N. H. S. Oliver

Ancient hydrocarbon seeps from the Mezozoic convergent margin of California: carbonate geochemistry, fluids and palaeoenvironments
K.A. Campbell, J.D. Farmer, & D. Des Marais

Fluid flow and stability of the U.S. continental slope offshore New Jersey from the Pleistocene to the Present
B. Dugan & P.B. Flemings

Fracture-fill calcite as a record of microbial methanogenesis and fluid migration: a case study from the Devonian Antrim Shale, Michigan Basin
J.M. Budai, A.M. Martini, L.M. Walter & T.C.W. Ku

The mechanism of fluid infiltration in peridotites at Almklovdalen, Western Norway
O. Kostenko, B. Jamtveit, H. Austrheim, K. Pollok, & C.Putnis

The origin of salinity in metamorphic fluids
B.W.D. Yardley & J.T. Graham

Quantifying secondary migration efficiencies
O. Sylta

Fluid flow and the Heart Mountain fault: a stable isotopic, fluid inclusion, & geochronologic study
T.A. Douglas, C.P. Chamberlain, M.A. Poage, M. Abruzzese, S. Shultz, J. Henneberry & P.Layer

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