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There is abundant evidence that pore fluids and fracture processes in the upper crust are physically and chemically coupled (\citep{Hubbert:1959ea, Frank:1965wi, Nur:1973ju, Sibson_1981}. Increases in pore fluid pressure, for example due to fluid injection, can lead to rupture and an increase in seismic activity. This is readily explained by the Navier-Coulomb criteria for brittle failure and the decrease in effective stress as a result of the elevated pore fluid pressure \citep{Price:1966uh, Sibson_1981}. Conversely, the changes in groundwater levels and the surface effusions of warm water that sometimes occur along fault traces following earthquakes show that failure can also have a profound effect on fluid flow, heat and mass transport \citep{Nur:1974ht, Sibson:1975cn, Sibson_1981}. The flow is interpreted to result from either seismic pumping as a result of dilatancy diffusion type processes or a seismic valve mechanism in which fault rupture leads to leakage of an overpressured aquifer or reservoir of fluid \citep{Nur_1972, Sibson_1981}.   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 faut fault  systems is often taken as evidence of pulsed fluid flow driven by seismic activity. Failure may result 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, for example, with  dilation jogs between en-echelon fault segments suggests that in this structural setting fluid flow is rapid. It may also be 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:1981kt, \citep{Sibson:1975cn,  Sibson:1987dq, Henley:2000wk). Henley:2000wn}.  A defining 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. A good example is the perturbation of the temperature field that has been observed in Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) mineralisation districts that lie around the upper Mississippi Valley and major Palaeozoic sediment basins in the continental USA (add references). Cathles and co-workers have identified a difference in mineral precipitation temperatures reported for Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) deposits in the basal Cambrian quartzite aquifer of the Arkoma Basin and that typical of the host rock for the depth of burial at the time of mineralisation. Similar temperature differences have been reported between lead-zinc mineralisation temperatures and the host rock for deposits located in other sedimentary basins, for example to the south east of the Massif Central in France (Charef and Sheppard, 1986). In both cases a cogent argument can be made that the difference is due to heat advection associated with episodic release of hot fluids from deeper regions of the basins. 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). 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 lithostatic pressure either 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 and not 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.