Nature, in its March 19, 2013 article, reports that Earthquakes found to create gold veins in an instant.
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Scientists have long known that
veins of gold are formed by mineral deposition from hot fluids flowing
through cracks deep in Earth’s crust. But a study published today
in Nature Geoscience1 has
found that the process can occur almost instantaneously — possibly
within a few tenths of a second.
The process takes place along
'fault jogs' — sideways zigzag cracks that connect the main fault lines
in rock, says first author Dion, a seismologist at the University of
Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
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