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Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-921-2024
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
Research article
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06 Aug 2024
Research article |  | 06 Aug 2024

Geodynamic controls on clastic-dominated base metal deposits

Anne C. Glerum, Sascha Brune, Joseph M. Magnall, Philipp Weis, and Sarah A. Gleeson

Data sets

ASPECT input and output files and postprocessing scripts A. C. Glerum https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10048075

Model code and software

ASPECT and FastScape source code A. C. Glerum https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10048075

ASPECT: Advanced Solver for Problems in Earth's ConvecTion W. Bangerth et al. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.4865333.V8

fastscape-lem/fastscape 0.1.0beta2 B. Bovy https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3840917

ASPECT v2.3.0 W. Bangerth et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5131909

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Short summary
High-value zinc–lead deposits formed in sedimentary basins created when tectonic plates rifted apart. We use computer simulations of rifting and the associated sediment erosion and deposition to understand why they formed in some basins but not in others. Basins that contain a metal source, faults that focus fluids, and rocks that can host deposits occurred in both narrow and wide rifts for ≤ 3 Myr. The largest and the most deposits form in narrow margins of narrow asymmetric rifts.
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