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Vicky Veritas
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Born in the Anthropocene
Worked at the intersection of Geology and GIS

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343 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Claudetite:
- Arsenic oxide mineral
- Forms via the oxidation of arsenic bearing minerals, e.g. realgar, arsenopyrite
- Has the same hardness as fingernails (2.5 on the Mohs scale)
- Named after Frederick Claudet (1826-1906), a French chemist who first described it #minerals
December 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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The economic geologists are convinced flat slabs do things related to copper porphyry systems.

For example:
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction - Nature Geoscience
Laramide flat-slab subduction releases fluids into the overlying crust that mediate water-fluxed melting of precursor arc lower crust, ultimately forming porphyry copper deposits, according to a geoch...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM