Heat-Mass Transfer and Geodynamics of the Lithosphere

Preface.- The processes of heat and mass transfer in the Earth's mantle.- Thermo-gravity model for sedimentary basins.- Prospects for identifying and applied use of hydro and petrothermal energy sources in geodynamically active structures of the eastern segment of the Central Caucasus.- Models of geothermal areas: new insights from electromagnetic geothermometry.- Explosive processes in permafrost areas - new type of geocryological hazard.- Borehole temperature measurements under free thermal convection.- Geothermal regime of groundwater in Moscow under anthropogenic impact.- Geothermy of the continental margins of Eastern Russia .- Geothermal evidence of cyclic back-arc spreading in the marginal seas of the North-West Pacific.- Heat flow asymmetry on the mid-oceanic ridges of northern and southern earth hemispheres.- The correlation between Earth heat flow and oil and gas potential - fundamental pattern of Western Siberia.- Influence of hydrodynamic conditions on the mass transfer ofpollutants in the areas of liquidated mines.- Factor modeling of mass transfer of pollutants in the areas of hydrogeological windows.- Hydraulic fracture problem for poroelastic medium with double porosity.- Incompletely coupled equations of hydraulic fracturing in poroelastic medium.- Geomechanical model for large scale hydraulic fracture dynamics.- Thermodynamic properties of geothermal fluids from South Russiai Kayakent and Kizlyar hot sources.- Thermodynamic properties of geothermal fluids from South Russia: Izberbash and Thernair hot sources.- ROSA Database and GIS Project:  accumulation of the world largest oil and gas deposits in geological history.- Lithosphere of the West Transbaikalian sector of the Central Asian fold belt according to electromagnetic studies.- Caucasian-Arabian segment of Alpine-Himalayan convergence: an example of continental collision above mantle plume.- Geothermics and seismicity of the Caucasus region and the inverse problem of geodynamics.-

Dr. Svalova Valentina is a Corresponding Member of the International Informatization Academy and Leading Scientist within the Sergeev Institute of Environmental Geoscience, Russian Academy of Sciences, and President of Russian Geothermal Association.