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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Earthquakes May Forge Large Gold Nuggets Scientists propose that large chunks of gold could form from earthquakes’ pressure Scientific American Geology 2 Sep, 2024 | 963 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ Solid gold bars stacked in bank vaults, layers of plating on this summer’s Olympic medals or even your own pieces of golden jewelry could owe their existence to earthquakes. The stress and strain produced by moving tectonic plates during these temblors may trigger a chemical reaction that causes minuscule particles of gold to coalesce into larger nuggets, a new study proposes. “The biggest finding is showing a new gold-forming process and providing an explanation for how really large gold nuggets might form,” says Chris Voisey, a co-author of the study and a geologist at Monash University in Australia. “This was always a bit of a conundrum, especially when there isn’t field evidence supporting the alternative gold-forming p
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