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Gold and other minor elements associated with the hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, supplemented with data from Steamboat Springs, Nevada / by Donald E. White, Chris Heropoulos, and R.O. Fournier.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- White, Donald Edward, 1914-2002, author.
- Fournier, Robert O. (Robert Orville), 1932- author.
- Heropoulos, Chris, author.
- Series:
- U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 2001.
- U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 2001
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gold ores--Yellowstone National Park.
- Gold ores.
- Gold ores--Nevada--Steamboat Springs.
- Hydrothermal deposits--Yellowstone National Park.
- Hydrothermal deposits.
- Hydrothermal deposits--Nevada--Steamboat Springs.
- Steamboat Springs (Nev.).
- Nevada--Steamboat Springs.
- United States--Yellowstone National Park.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iii, 19 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 1992.
- Summary:
- A commonly held theory of the origin of epithermal ore deposits relates Au, Ag, Hg, As, Sb, Tl, and other "volatile" elements to "fossil" hot-spring systems that transported and deposited these metallic elements close to the ground surface existing at the time. In the early 1970's, an emission-spectrographic method using short-wavelength radiation (SWR) was developed for use in the analysis of these "volatile" elements. This method was applied to 125 samples of rock and hot-spring chemical precipitates from Yellowstone National Park and 43 samples from Steamboat Springs, Nev. The results of those analyses are presented here. Recently, other, more sensitive methods for the analyses of gold and volatile elements have been developed and (or) become less expensive, but these methods generally have not yet been applied to Yellowstone samples. -- First paragraph
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed August 25, 2014).
- Also available online in PDF format from the U.S. Geological Survey Warehouse (http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 18-19).
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
- Other Format:
- Print version: White, Donald Edward, 1914-2002. Gold and other minor elements associated with the hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, supplemented with data from Steamboat Springs, Nevada
- OCLC:
- 889715948
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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