Professor George H. Brimhall
Director of Earth Resource Center
391 McCone Hall
Phone (510) 642-5868
Fax (510) 643-9980
brimhall@socrates.berkeley.edu

Teaching Schedule
EPS 101 M-W 1-2 pm 325 McCone
Field M-W 2-5:30 pm Berkeley Hills

Office Hours
M-W 5-7 383 McCone

Professor George Brimhall is a professor of geology and director of Earth Resource Center. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at University of California, earning Ph.D. degree in 1972.

Research interests in the Brimhall research group at Berkeley all emanate from field-based, quantitative studies of ore-forming processes focusing on mineral exploration science and non-renewable resource issues including improved environmental management of mined areas. Ore deposits studied currently include porphyry copper deposits, hydrothermal wall rock alteration, acid sulfate systems, secondary enrichment in relation to paleohydrology driven by climatic change, mesothermal and epithermal gold deposits, chemical weathering, soil genesis, computer modeling of ground water transport and chemical reactions, laser Ar/Ar geochronology of auithigenic minerals in soils and leached cappings, regional crustal processes including granitic batholiths and related metallogenic patterns. Current field sites include Chile, Argentina and California. In the past our field areas included West Africa, Australia, Russia, Brazil and Papua New Guinea.