Carlin Unconformity

The Carlin Unconformity or Carlin Trend is a geological peculiarity in northeastern Nevada.

It is based on a collision of a Terran with the North American plate at the time of the Lower Carboniferous ( Mississippian, about 350 million years ago ), which was accompanied by the Acadian orogeny. The collision produced high crustal temperatures and pressures, so that along the seam zone created numerous hydrothermal vents. This was particularly strong in the Eocene dissolved minerals in the direction of the surface. A five miles wide and 40 miles long belt through the city Carlin counts more recently the most productive gold deposits in the United States. The Carlin mine is the namesake of the Carlin - type gold deposits where the gold dissolved invisibly present in pyrite and arsenopyrite.

• Geography (Nevada )
• Geology America
• Plate tectonic