As a hobby hard rock miner in southwest AZ this info is invaluable. Thumbs up for this excellent geology description/explanation. Wish I continued my degree at school of mines, UofA instead of physical metallurgy. More pls
Did the main copper bearing intrusion somehow break off and “float up”. There are interesting examples of suddenly detached iceberg “shooters” in ice shelves at the toe of a floating glacial ice stream in Alaska n bays rising up 2-3x higher than expected. Thus we see a kind of “telescoping” event play out in minutes. The shooter then collapses under its own weight. I felt it was illustrative of what might happen when “rotation” occurs during relaxation of collision stress. I suggest the “keels” of mountain regions may be thus elevated. And so provide a “pathway” for dikes, fluid flow, breccia dikes etc. see the elevation trend along the alto Andes for comparison. Spikes from below?
As a hobby hard rock miner in southwest AZ this info is invaluable. Thumbs up for this excellent geology description/explanation. Wish I continued my degree at school of mines, UofA instead of physical metallurgy. More pls
Did the main copper bearing intrusion somehow break off and “float up”. There are interesting examples of suddenly detached iceberg “shooters” in ice shelves at the toe of a floating glacial ice stream in Alaska n bays rising up 2-3x higher than expected. Thus we see a kind of “telescoping” event play out in minutes. The shooter then collapses under its own weight. I felt it was illustrative of what might happen when “rotation” occurs during relaxation of collision stress. I suggest the “keels” of mountain regions may be thus elevated. And so provide a “pathway” for dikes, fluid flow, breccia dikes etc. see the elevation trend along the alto Andes for comparison. Spikes from below?
Please don't block the slides with a view of the speaker, it is very distracting and annoying