Gold and other minor elements associated with the hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, supplemented with data from Steamboat Springs, Nevada

White DE, Heropoulos CC, Fournier RO. 1992. Gold and other minor elements associated with the hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, supplemented with data from Steamboat Springs, Nevada. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Bulletin. 2001. United States Geological Survey. Reston, VA

"Present findings reveal significant gold contents (>0.1 ppm) in only a few samples from Yellowstone, but the general principles relating Yellowstone's hot spring and geyser activity to gold transport and deposition are of considerable interest as a guide to how gold deposits may have formed elsewhere..."

Type
Published Report
Authors
White, Donald; Heropoulos, C; Fournier, Robert
Date of Issue
1992
Publisher
United States Geological Survey
Units
HIST , YELL
Keywords
ehistory, Geology, Geothermal Activity, Geysers, Gold (Au), History, Hot Springs, Hydrothermal Activity, Minerals

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