Flash vaporization during earthquakes evidenced by gold deposits
Flash vaporization during earthquakes evidenced by gold deposits
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Fluids flowing through cavities in Earth’s crust can deposit gold. Thermo-mechanical modelling of a fluid-filled cavity that expands suddenly during an earthquake shows that the drop in pressure would cause the fluid to vaporize and deposit the gold almost instantaneously.
Much of the world’s known gold has been derived from arrays of quartz vei...
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Flash vaporization during earthquakes evidenced by gold deposits
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1506356803
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1506356803
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1752-0894
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1752-0908
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10.1038/ngeo1759
