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Earthquakes Turn Water Into Gold
NBCNews.com ^ | 17 March 2013 | Becky Oskin

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at science.nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthquakes; geology; gold; goldbelt; science
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To: B4Ranch
Wish he could be brought back to life. We need him now. :)


21 posted on 03/18/2013 3:17:17 AM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: muawiyah

———has not yet been found——

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


22 posted on 03/18/2013 4:16:08 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: bert

The rings around the crater are enormous ~ it’s huge! There’s more than one ring. Every ring represents a fault or two.


23 posted on 03/18/2013 6:21:53 AM PDT by muawiyah
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