Lakes in the Salt Creek area of the Coorong region, South Australia, contain a
diverse suite of Holocene carbonates including aragonite, calcite, Mg-calcite,
magnesite, hydromagnesite, and dolomite. Dolomite has been the main mineral of
concern in previous geological studies of this area, yet it makes up no more
than 5% of the carbonate minerals forming surficial deposits across the coastal
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Christopher G.SSt C. Kendall, James L. Sadd, Abdulrahman Alsharhan
Marine carbonate cements, which are superficially like travertines from meteoric
caves, are coating and binding some intertidal sedimentary rock surfaces
occurring in coastal Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, (UAE). Near Jebel
Dhana these surficial cements can be up to 3 cm thick and envelope beach rock
surfaces and fossils. They are also present both as thin coats and a
fracture-fill cement in... hiện toàn bộ