Daniele Luigi Pinti

• Professor
• Professor (Full) at University of Quebec in Montreal

The determination of the current and past recharge sources, as well as the reconstruction of the timing of the recharge in geothermal reservoirs, is required in order to correctly assess the resource potential of these systems. Theistareykir is a newly developed geothermal field close to the well-known exploited fields of Krafla and Námafjall in NE...

La Réunion Island, home to the volcanoes Piton des Neiges and Piton de la Fournaise, hosts active hydrothermal systems fueled by a long-standing mantle plume. Understanding these systems is crucial for predicting their future potential as a geothermal resource. In this work, noble gases (Helium (He), Neon (Ne), Argon (Ar), Krypton (Kr), and Xenon (...

Climate change, inter‐annual precipitation variability, recurrent droughts and flash flooding, coupled with increasing water needs, are shaping the co‐evolution of socioeconomic and cultural assemblages, water laws and regulations, and equitable drinking water access and allocation worldwide. Recognising the need for mitigation strategies for drink...

Stalagmites are useful archives in reconstructing paleoclimates: most paleoclimate studies used stalagmites that are distributed in specific locations and ages. We examined a stalagmite (GYM-1) collected from Nara Prefecture, central Japan, where limestone areas are limited. Applying ²³⁸ U– ²³⁴ U method, the ages of GYM-1 were determined as 744 ± 7...

Some of the largest magmatic-hydrothermal copper ore deposits and deposit clusters are associated with arc-oblique fault systems. Whether this structural context impacts the geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids, including their copper contents, remains unknown. Here, we investigate the copper concentration and helium isotope signature of geothermal...

Information about the age distribution of groundwater provides unique and particularly relevant insights about groundwater flow and mixing conditions, as well as about the vulnerability and sustainability of the resource. Constraining flow paths in heterogeneous and fractured aquifers requires spatially distributed and depth-related observations. W...

In this contribution, we present some of the first data on the elemental signature of deep crustal fluids in a basalt-hosted, low-chloride magmatic-hydrothermal system. Down-hole fluid samples (850–1600 m) from wells in the Theistareykir and Krafla geothermal fields in the Northern Volcanic Zone of Iceland were combined with well-head samples of co...

A study of five diamonds containing mineral and fluid inclusions, selected among forty-nine specimens from the Cullinan Mine, South Africa, was carried out to better document the origin and formation of N-absent B-poor (type IIb) diamonds. The combination of several in-situ non-destructive techniques was used to identify the mineralogy and the chem...

Variations in the chemical composition of geofluids and of gas fluxes are significant parameters for understanding mud volcanism and correctly estimate their emissions in carbon species, particularly greenhouse gas, methane. In this study, muddy water and gas samples were collected from the Anjihai, Dushanzi, Aiqigou, and Baiyanggou mud volcanoes i...

The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB) and the Gulf Extensional Province (Baja California) are the regions in Mexico with the highest heat flow and where the main geothermal energy resources are currently exploited. Here, previously published and newly collected heat and volatile species (He, Ar and CO2) data from 132 samples of four geothermal are...

The India‐Asia orogenic zone is considered to participate significantly in the Earth's geological carbon budget. However, the carbon cycling process at orogenic belts with ongoing continental subduction is poorly constrained. Here, new He‐C‐N systematics of hydrothermal gases in Lhasa terrane are reported to explore carbon cycling and the role of t...