Flash vaporization during earthquakes evidenced by gold deposits

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 294-298

  Weatherley, Dion K ^a   Henley, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DEPOSITION; FLUID PRESSURE; GOLD; MINERAL DEPOSIT; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORE GRADE; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE GRADIENT; QUARTZ VEIN; VAPORIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84875763085     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1759     Document Type: Article

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