Large amounts of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere are taken up when ocean alters seawater carbonate system, which could have a significant impact on carbonate-rich sediments. Coral reef limestone is special biogenic carbonate, mainly composed calcium carbonate. When rocks brought into contact with weak acid solution, they will be dissolved, may affect physical and mechanical properties rock....

Intrusions of magma induce thermal aureoles in the country rock. Analytical solutions predict that the thickness of an aureole is proportional to the thickness of the intrusion. However, in the field, thermal aureoles are often significantly thinner or wider than predicted by simple thermal models. Numerical models show that thermal aureoles are wider if the heat transfer in the magma is faster...

Terrestrial laser scanning was used to measure snow thickness changes (perpendicular to the surface) in a rock face. The aim was to investigate the accumulation and redistribution of snow in extremely steep terrain (>60). The north-east face of the Chlein Schiahorn in the region of Davos in eastern Switzerland was scanned before and several times after a snowfall event. A summer scan without sn...

Equations are developed for the calculation of the simultaneous variations in trace element concentrations and radiogenic and stable isotopic compositions that occur during water-rock interaction. The equations are of general use for modeling chemical and isotopic variations in porous media and are applied here to the diagenesis of carbonate rocks and sediments. The variables which control the ...

Introduction: The origin of secondary carbonate minerals in the oldest known martian meteorite ALH84001 have been intensely debated in the literature, with widely different thermal origins considered: ranging from hydrothermal alteration (possibly impactinduced) [e.g. 1, 2, 3] to low temperature alteration conditions [e.g. 4, 5, 6]. Recent isotopic evidence suggests the carbonates precipitated ...

Abstract Drilling of the Gotthard Rail Base Tunnel through Central Alps from 2005 to 2010 opened up fractured basement units and frequent water inflows provided access major fluid-rock interactions processes in orogenic crystalline upper crust. Construction 57 km long tunnel was divided into five different sections. Here we report data observations 10 central Sedrun section 211 samples were col...

Wettability alteration is one of the most important methods for oil recovery from sandstone and carbonate reservoirs. The effects of salinity, pH, temperature, and chemicals such as surfactants and fatty acids on the alteration of the wettability were described in previous studies. In recent years, attention has been directed to nanoparticles as a wettability alteration agent. The effect of som...