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  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the advancement of geological modeling and ore deposit exploration.

Overview

George H. Brimhall is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and earth and planetary sciences.

The scientist's recent publications have appeared in the venue "Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America," with three papers listed between 2021 and 2025. These publications include:

  • "RECOGNIZING THE TOPS OF DEEP SEDIMENT-HOSTED PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS USING ORBICULAR ACTINOLITE ALTERATION AND HIGH ANTIMONY-ARSENIC-BARIUM VEIN GOSSANS" (2021) in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • "AN OPERATIVE PORPHYRY COPPER MODEL BASED ON THE REDOX THERMODYNAMICS AND TRANSPORT OF GASEOUS HYDROGEN" (2024) in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • "TWO MAPPABLE THERMOCHEMICAL INDICATORS OF ECONOMIC PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS BASED ON GASEOUS HYDROGEN CONVECTION" (2025) in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Their work covers several main fields, with three publications in engineering and two in earth and planetary sciences. Subfields of study include geophysics, mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence, catalysis, and mechanics of materials.

Key topics addressed in their research encompass geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, catalysis and oxidation reactions, iron and steelmaking processes, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and metallurgical processes and thermodynamics.

George H. Brimhall has been recognized as a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2001, recognized for contributions to geological modeling and ore deposit exploration.

Best Publications

  • Constitutive mass balance relations between chemical composition, volume, density, porosity, and strain in metasomatic hydrochemical systems: Results on weathering and pedogenesis

    George H Brimhall;William E Dietrich

  • From a black to a gray box ― a mass balance interpretation of pedogenesis

    Oliver A. Chadwick;George H. Brimhall;David M. Hendricks

  • Middle Miocene climatic change in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile: Evidence from supergene mineralization at La Escondida

    Charles N. Alpers;George H Brimhall

  • Weathering profiles, mass-balance analysis, and rates of solute loss: Linkages between weathering and erosion in a small, steep catchment

    Suzanne Prestrud Anderson;William E. Dietrich;George H Brimhall

  • Magmatic arc asymmetry and distribution of anomalous plutonic belts in the batholiths of California: Effects of assimilation, crustal thickness, and depth of crystallization

    Jay J. Ague;George H. Brimhall

  • Deformational Mass Transport and Invasive Processes in Soil Evolution

    George H Brimhall;Oliver A. Chadwick;Chris J. Lewis;William Compston

  • Quantitative geochemical approach to pedogenesis: importance of parent material reduction, volumetric expansion, and eolian influx in lateritization

    George H. Brimhall;J Lewis Christopher;Chris Ford;James Bratt

  • Metal enrichment in bauxites by deposition of chemically mature aeolian dust

    George H Brimhall;Christopher J. Lewis;Jay J. Ague;William E. Dietrich

  • Direct dating of weathering phenomena by 40Ar39Ar and K-Ar analysis of supergene K-Mn oxides

    Paulo M Vasconcelos;Paul R Renne;George H Brimhall;Tim A Becker

  • Regional variations in bulk chemistry, mineralogy, and the compositions of mafic and accessory minerals in the batholiths of California

    Jay J. Ague;George H. Brimhall

  • The genesis of ores

    George Brimhall

  • Remnants of a fossil alluvial fan landscape of Miocene age in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile using cosmogenic nuclide exposure age dating

    K. Nishiizumi;M.W. Caffee;R.C. Finkel;G. Brimhall

  • Ore fluids; magmatic to supergene

    George H. Brimhall;David A. Crerar

  • Paleohydrologic evolution and geochemical dynamics of cumulative supergene metal enrichment at La Escondida, Atacama Desert, northern Chile

    Charles N. Alpers;George H. Brimhall

  • Analysis of supergene ore-forming processes and ground-water solute transport using mass balance principles

    George H. Brimhall;Charles N. Alpers;Aric B. Cunningham

  • Geochemical modeling of steady state fluid flow and chemical reaction during supergene enrichment of porphyry copper deposits

    Jay James Ague;George H. Brimhall

  • Age and Duration of Weathering by 40K-40Ar and 40Ar/39Ar Analysis of Potassium-Manganese Oxides

    Paulo M. Vasconcelos;Tim A. Becker;Paul R. Renne;George H. Brimhall

  • Integration of geochemical mass balance with sediment transport to calculate rates of soil chemical weathering and transport on hillslopes

    Kyungsoo Yoo;Kyungsoo Yoo;Ronald Amundson;Arjun M. Heimsath;William E. Dietrich

  • Characterization of waste rock associated with acid drainage at the Penn Mine, California, by ground-based visible to short-wave infrared reflectance spectroscopy assisted by digital mapping

    C S Irene Montero;George H Brimhall;Charles N. Alpers;Gregg A. Swayze

  • Deep lithospheric dynamics beneath the Sierra Nevada during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic as inferred from xenolith petrology

    Cin-Ty Lee;Roberta L. Rudnick;George H. Brimhall

  • Lithologic determination of mass transfer mechanisms of multiple-stage porphyry copper mineralization at Butte, Montana; vein formation by hypogene leaching and enrichment of potassium-silicate protore

    G. H. Brimhall

Frequent Co-Authors

William E. Dietrich
William E. Dietrich University of California, Berkeley
Jay J. Ague
Jay J. Ague Yale University
J. Brendan Murphy
J. Brendan Murphy St. Francis Xavier University
Charles N. Alpers
Charles N. Alpers United States Geological Survey
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Oliver A. Chadwick
Oliver A. Chadwick University of California, Santa Barbara
Ronald Amundson
Ronald Amundson University of California, Berkeley
Karsten Pruess
Karsten Pruess Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ian S. Williams
Ian S. Williams Australian National University
Suzanne P. Anderson
Suzanne P. Anderson University of Colorado Boulder

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