Inhospitable climate fosters gold ore formation

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 09:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

South Africa's Witwatersrand is the site of the world's largest and richest gold deposit. In order to explain its formation, ETH professor Christoph Heinrich took a look back into the Earth's early climatic history.

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