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Fluid-Fluid Interactions.

AXEL LIEBSCHER AND CHRISTOPH A. HEINRICH, Editors. Pp. 432. Mineralogical Society of America and Geochemical Society, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Volume 65. 2007. Paperback. ISBN-13 978-0-939950-77-5. Price US$40.00.

Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Fluid-fluid interactions—mixing, immiscibility, and phase separation—are frequently proposed as mechanisms of ore genesis. As is written in the introductory pages of this volume, "...immiscibility of fluids and the associated phenomena of multi-phase fluid flow are generally dealt with only in subsections.... This volume attempts to fill this gap.....and explicitly focus on the role that co-existing fluids play in the diverse geologic environments." There is much didactic sense in a volume with this focus, if only because there are commonalities of the components and topologies of phase diagrams in multi-component fluid systems, whatever their compositions—magmas, aqueous solutions, or hydrocarbons. I congratulate the editors for their conception of a short course covering the physics and chemistry of coexisting geologic fluids at the 2007 Goldschmidt Conference in Köln and publication of the materials as a volume in the well-respected Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Reviews series. The format is typical of the series, with chapters from different authors, in this case an international list dominantly from the Germanic and Scandinavian realm.

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