Geological process
Cooling
Loss of heat from a fluid, reducing what it can hold in solution. The simplest depositional mechanism, and the dominant one where a hot fluid meets cold water.
In the knowledge graph
- Cooling is a depositional mechanism for Mississippi Valley-type system
- Cooling is a depositional mechanism for Porphyry copper system
- Cooling is a depositional mechanism for Volcanogenic massive sulfide system
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