Posted on 03/17/2013 6:11:11 PM PDT by zeestephen
Water in geologic faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold. This model provides a quantitative mechanism for the link between gold and quartz seen in many of the world's gold deposits.
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Au contraire mi amigo ( a little frogmex lingo there) think Charlotte NC and the creeks dumping into the present Lake Norman. There is the ancient fault bleeding gold. Ditto Franklin
The rings around the crater are enormous ~ it’s huge! There’s more than one ring. Every ring represents a fault or two.
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