Spar caves as fossil hydrothermal systems: Timing and origin of ore deposits in the Delaware Basin and Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas, USA

Studies of sulfuric acid hypogene speleogenesis have contributed significantly to understanding the history of the Guadalupe Mountains of southeast New Mexico and west Texas for at least the past 12 Ma. A recently published hypothesis of supercritical CO2 spar cave genesis provides information that...

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Main Authors: David D. Decker, Victor J. Polyak, Yemane Asmerom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of South Florida Libraries 2018-09-01
Series:International Journal of Speleology
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol47/iss3/1/