The interaction of the lithosphere and hydrosphere sets the
boundary conditions for life, as water and the nutrients extracted
from rocks are essential to all known life-forms. Water-rock
interaction also affects the fate and transport of pollutants,
mediates the long-term cycling of fluids and metals in the earth's
crust, impacts the migration and storage of hydrocarbons in
sedimentary basins, contributes to the carving and evolution of
landscapes, and affects the evolution of geothermal and volcanic
activity. At the longest timescales, water-rock interaction draws
down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and impacts climatic
evolution. Several tools have contributed over the last decades to
our growing understanding of water-rock interaction. For example,
new uses of isotopes have led to novel interpretations of the
evolution of fluid and rock chemistry over time. New modelling
techniques have allowed elucidation of multi-component reactive
transport at all temperatures and depths in the crust, while new
microscopic and spectroscopic techniques have been used to
investigate mineral surfaces and nanophases in environmental
systems. New tools from molecular biology are now probing
micro-organisms living at depth and at the surface of the Earth. In
addition, field investigations measure ongoing water-rock
interaction in modern day systems, allowing comparison to such
interactions documented in the geological record. The 334 papers
published in Volumes 1 and 2 of these Proceedings summarize current
research from around the world on the broad area of water-rock
interactions. These research results are of broad interest to
students and professionals in geochemistry, hydrology, geology,
environmental microbiology, vulcanology, and water chemistry
studying both the fundamental and applied aspects of energy and
natural resources.
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