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What does epithermal mean?

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Adjective
  1. (geology) Describing deposits of minerals formed from warm water at shallow depth
  2. (physics) Describing neutrons of kinetic energy greater than that of thermal motion
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Orpiment is most frequently encountered in epithermal hydrothermal settings such as veins, hot springs, fumaroles.
Realgar is most frequently encountered in epithermal hydrothermal settings such as shallow veins, hot springs, and fumaroles.
The Property covers a zone of high-grade molybdenite float as well as a gold-bearing quartz vein epithermal system.
Vein fragments in the cataclastic breccia observed in drill core indicate the epithermal vein zone developed in the hanging wall of an active fault zone.
Both instruments sense the presence of hydrogenous materials by measuring variations in the thermal and epithermal neutron fluxes.
Silver in these samples are contained in the ruby silver minerals proustite and pyrargyrite, typically found in epithermal systems.

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