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In the geological record direct evidence for episodic and rapid flow of fluids associated with fracture and faulting is more equivocal. The presence of banded hydrothermal mineralisation of varying degrees of complexity in exhumed fault systems is often taken as evidence of pulsed fluid flow driven by seismic activity. Failure often results in brecciation of earlier generations of veins and the opening of large dilation voids that are then cemented by mineral precipitation from upwelling hydrothermal fluids \citep{Wright:2009ej}. The extent, however, to which mineral precipitation in the veins is contemporaneous with, and directly coupled to failure is open to question. Observations of epithermal mineralisation associated with dilation jogs between en-echelon fault segments suggests that in this structural setting fluid flow is rapid, being accompanied by rapid pressure fluctuations which triggers high level boiling, or effervesence of hydrothermal fluids. This results in precipitation of common gangue quartz and calcite as well as economic metalliferous deposits \citep{Sibson:1975cn, Sibson:1987dq, Henley:2000wn}.   A characteristic feature of systems with episodic pulsing of warm to hot fluid is the development of a thermal anomaly along the high permeability paths in which flow is focused. An example is the perturbation of the temperature field observed in Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) districts that lie around the upper Mississippi Valley and other major Palaeozoic sediment basins in the continental USA \citep{Sangster:1994ub}. Similar temperature anomalies have been reported for other sedimentary basins, for example to the south east of the Massif Central in France \citep{Charef:1988vt}. The anomaly is seen as a difference between the temperature of precipitation of hydrothermal minerals and that of the of the host rock at the depth of burial and time that the mineralization took place. Using simple thermal modelling Cathles and co-workers show that that the temperature difference is due to heat advection associated with episodic, rapid release of hot fluids from deeper regions of the basins \cite{Cathles:1983tj, CathlesIII:2005uo}. In these example the fluids are thought to originate from overpressured brines in compacting sedimentary basins. Importantly, the fluid velocities required to produce the thermal anomaly are more than 1000 times greater than could be produced by the steady subsidence, compaction, and dewatering of the basins (Cathles and Smith, 1983). \citep{Cathles:1983t}.  This suggests to us that the pulses result from a coupling between the pore fluid pressure and rock failure. We envisage that when pore fluid pressures approach lithostaticpressure  either mode I  hydraulic fracturing or shear failure and development of dilation jogs along fault surfaces allows rapid dewatering of the sediment pile with channel flow of fluids into the basal aquifers.  A corollary of the model proposed by Cathles and others is that the fluids involved in the mineralisation are trapped formation into,  andnot meteoric waters. Additionally the mineralisation involves restricted water volumes at consequent low water:rock ratios. Supporting evidence for formation waters is found in the fact that in the modern upper Mississippi Valley basins the deep waters are saline (Cathles, 1993). Were the waters to have been meteoric one expects the salinity to have been flushed out as recharge in areas of elevated terrain drives cross-basin flow  along path lengths of several hundred kilometres. Thus the evidence of a thermal anomaly, coupled with remnant salinity in the sedimentary basin runs counter to the current paradigm for MVT formation which involves cross-basin flow of large volumes of gravity driven meteoric water (Garven plus other references). Rather a more dynamic regime involving fluid overpressure, fracture and fluid flow is implicated. thin aquifers.  To help us understand these processes we have used clumped isotope thermometry to determine the temperature at which hydrothermal vein calcite precipitated in dilation voids of a Variscan strike-slip fault in the southern Pennines of the United Kingdom. The veins are associated with Pb-Zn and fluorite mineralisation and the fault was extensively worked as an economic deposit. Located at the margin of a lower Carboniferous platform on which shelf carbonates were deposited, the fault separates the platform from a deep water basin infilled with deep water facies limestones and shales of lower to upper Carboniferous age.   Clumped isotope geothermometry relies on the fact that the heavy isotopes ^{13}C and ^{18}O are ordered in the carbonate lattice with the degree of ordering being an inverse function of temperature. This is a result of the greater stability of the ^{13}C-^{18}O bond compared to bonds involving either no, or a single isotopic substitution. As temperature increases the isotopes tend towards a more random or stochastic distribution. Measurement of the degree of ordering allows us to estimate the temperature at which the distribution of isotopes in the calcite structure are locked in. This is analogous to the concept of a closure temperature for radiogenic isotopes or cation ordering in minerals. In this study this temperature is taken as the precipitation temperature of the calcite. A key advantage of the method is that the temperature estimate is based on the distribution of carbon and oxygen isotopes within a single phase and not on the partitioning of oxygen isotopes between calcite and it’s parent fluid as in the conventional oxygen isotope geothermometer. Thus combining the clumped isotope temperature (T($\Delta$_{47})) with the bulk oxygen isotope composition of the carbonate we can use published fractionation factor calibrations to calculate the isotopic composition of the parent fluid. Using these techniques we find: