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Could something like Fort Knox survive as an unusually concentrated deposit of gold? On a larger scale, would a city like New York leave an area with an anomal
by mattnewport 9y ago
Could something like Fort Knox survive as an unusually concentrated deposit of gold?
On a larger scale, would a city like New York leave an area with an anomalous distribution of elements of a similar nature to what we see where there has been an ancient meteorite impact?
- jlg23 9y agoIf you look at it in just the right scale: definitely. The problem is to find the exact spot to look at. Even today, geo-exploration is mostly a joke: drill where experience tells us to. New hotness: Have AI do inference from formalized experience. There could be a thousand former fort knoxes or NYCs and we, with our methods, only have a snowball's chance in hell to find any.