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DesertDrifter

06/20/23 11:59 PM

#447690 RE: Zorax #447688

That particular deposit is early Miocene, roughly 16 million years old. It is indeed hydrothermal in origin, superheated water with silica dissolved in it that deposits in the gaps a few atoms or molecules deep each year as water infiltrates for millions of years.