Earthquakes Turn Water Into Gold by: Madeleine Bright

Water in faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold, according to a model published in the March 17 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. The model provides a quantitative mechanism for the link between gold and quartz seen in many of the world'sgold deposits, said Dion Weatherley, a geophysicist at the University of Queensland in Australia and lead author of the study.
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