Differential dissolution of a Pleistocene reef in the groundwater mixing zone of coastal Yucatan, Mexico

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Abstract

Mixing of fresh groundwater with subterranean Caribbean seawater generates a highly reactive geochemical zone that enhances aragonite and calcite dissolution and permits neomorphism of aragonite.

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Back, W., Hanshaw, B., Herman, J., and Van Driel, J., 1986, Differential dissolution of a Pleistocene reef in the groundwater mixing zone of coastal Yucatan, Mexico: Geology, v. 14, no. 2, p. 137-140, https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1986)14<137:DDOAPR>2.0.CO;2.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Differential dissolution of a Pleistocene reef in the groundwater mixing zone of coastal Yucatan, Mexico
Series title Geology
DOI 10.1130/0091-7613(1986)14<137:DDOAPR>2.0.CO;2
Volume 14
Issue 2
Year Published 1986
Language English
Publisher GeoScienceWorld
Description 4 p.
First page 137
Last page 140
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