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Basement heat flow and metalliferous mineralization in England and Wales

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Many examples of epigenetic metalliferous mineralization in central and northern England occur within a province now recognized to be characterized by high heat flow. Our analysis of this correlation leads us to conclude that Caledonian intrusive bodies, with high heat production and thermal conductivity, focused the development of hydrothermal systems responsible both for some types of post-Carboniferous mineralization and for present-day high heat flow.

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    G. C. Brown & J. Cassidy

  2. Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Downing Place, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK

    E. R. Oxburgh

  3. Institute of Geological Sciences (NERC), 154 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1R 5DU, UK

    J. Plant

  4. Institute of Geological Sciences (NERC), Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DE, UK

    P. A. Sabine

  5. Department of Geology, Imperial College of Science, South Kensington, London, SW7 2BP, UK

    J. V. Watson

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Brown, G., Cassidy, J., Oxburgh, E. et al. Basement heat flow and metalliferous mineralization in England and Wales. Nature 288, 657–659 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/288657a0

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