Dolomite as a paleoenvironmental archive
Dolomite [CaMg(CO₃)₂] is abundant in the rock record and preserves, in its chemical composition, information about the environment in which it formed. The scarcity of dolomite forming in modern oceans and evidence for dolomite replacing primary calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) in ancient and modern success...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147543 |