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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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About 6 miles below the surface, under incredible temperatures and pressures, water carries high concentrations of carbon dioxide, silica and gold.
During an earthquake, faults suddenly open wider.
It's like pulling the lid off a pressure cooker: The water inside the void instantly vaporizes, flashing to steam and forcing silica, which forms the mineral quartz, and gold out of the fluids and onto nearby surfaces.
To: jiggyboy
PING.
To: zeestephen
Giant meteor hits Earth ~ you get a tremendous amount of new faulting ~
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posted on
03/17/2013 6:19:55 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: zeestephen
H
2O -- > Au
It's science. It's journalism. It's amazing!!
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posted on
03/17/2013 6:21:43 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
To: zeestephen
So does this mean we can create gold in an earthquake mimicked experiment?
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posted on
03/17/2013 6:21:54 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: jiggyboy; PA Engineer; blam; TigerLikesRooster; Cheap_Hessian; CJinVA; Jet Jaguar; ...
To: muawiyah
That’s a great stock tip.
The next time a meteor threatens, I’m going to short gold AND short the human race.
To: ClearCase_guy
DHMO → Au
The EPA aint gonna like this.
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posted on
03/17/2013 6:25:35 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: zeestephen
A twofer!
This means that all the gold in the gold belt from Georgia to Pennsylvania ~ along the fault lines of a meteor that hit the Delmarva peninsula about 35 million years ago ~ has not yet been found.
I'm renting a backhoe to dig into the backyard tomorrow!!!!
A Virginia nugget: >http://www.goldmaps.com/virgina.gif
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posted on
03/17/2013 6:32:49 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
A Virginia nugget... Is that legal? cause it looks somewhat like a handgun....
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posted on
03/17/2013 6:42:29 PM PDT
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: ClearCase_guy
I'm old enough to remember these bumper stickers in '64.
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posted on
03/17/2013 6:47:14 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: C210N
They have a toasted nut ginormous cruler cross with a doughnut hole thing at Dunkin Donuts ~ looks just like that one!
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posted on
03/17/2013 6:50:54 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: zeestephen
The Lost Dutchman found gold but it wasn’t his fault.
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posted on
03/17/2013 7:14:32 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Happy Hunger Games! May the odds be ever in your favor.)
To: zeestephen; SunkenCiv
in other words the water is not turned into gold, it is vaporized and the mineral deposits are left behind, including gold. The gold already existed and is not actually created in this process.
Hence the headline is garbage
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posted on
03/17/2013 7:26:23 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: GeronL
"...in other words the water is not turned into gold, it is vaporized and the mineral deposits are left behind, including gold. The gold already existed and is not actually created in this process."Not much different than the environ-Nazis claiming that coal-fired power plants "create" mercury. Mercury's an element - it would take reassembly of an atom to create it! needless to say, in the dumbed-down America, many fall for the BS.
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posted on
03/17/2013 7:32:42 PM PDT
by
meyer
(When people fear the government, you have Tyranny)
To: meyer
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posted on
03/17/2013 7:34:32 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
03/17/2013 8:05:09 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(When democracy turns to tyranny, we still get to vote. We just won't use voting boxes to do it.)
To: muawiyah
Oooh, almost made this a catastrophism topic!
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posted on
03/17/2013 8:40:14 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: BipolarBob
To: zeestephen
I’ve heard estimates that only 5% of the gold has been discovered, 95% remains to be recovered.
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