[1] Deep aquifers are potential long-term storage sites for anthropogenic CO2 emissions. The retention time and environmental safety of the injected CO2 depend on geologic and physical factors and on the chemical reactions between the CO2, the aquifer water, and the host rocks. The pH buffer capacity of the aquifer water and the acid neutralization potential of the host rocks are important fact...

It typically occurs as an alteration product at the contact between felsic and mafic or ultramafic rocks such as pyroxenites and dunites. It also occurs in carbonatites and metamorphosed magenesium rich limestone. Associated mineral phases include: corundum, apatite, serpentine and talc. It occurs interlayered with chlorite, biotite and phlogopite.[2] Vermiculite Wikipedia, the free encyclopedi...

melt fractions that percolated pervasively throughout the massif and On the basis of their structural and compositional characteristics, had a refractory, calc-alkaline character. Locally, these melts were mafic rocks in the Ronda peridotite are classified into four groups: tapped into cracks forming intrusive dykes. group A (garnet-bearing rocks) occurring in the spinel tectonite domain; group...

Lithological, structural, metamorphic and geochronological data for the North China Craton enable its division into the Western and Eastern Blocks of Archean to Paleoproterozoic age separated by a north–south trending Paleoproterozoic orogenic belt: the Central Zone. The Central Zone is divisible into a series of lowto medium-grade granite–greenstone belts and high-grade metamorphic terrains co...

The Ok Tedi Complex hosts a world-class porphyry copper-gold deposit. Samples from the Ok Tedi Complex and the neighbouring Mount Ian Complex were analyzed for major and trace elements using XRF and HR-ICP-MS, and the isotopic composition of S in sulphides was analyzed by Elemental Analyzer. Major element geochemistry indicates that both complexes are alkaline and contain rocks ranging in compo...

Palaeoproterozoic sedimentary basins of north-eastern and central-eastern Australia are host to large amounts of variably deformed and metamorphosed Fe-rich tholeiitic rocks. Emplacement and/or extrusion of the mafic rocks occurred during one or more episodes of crustal thinning relating to a period of regional extension and sedimentation across Palaeoproterozoic northeastern Australia (ca. 173...

ONE petrological approach to upper mant le studies is to determine which ultramafic rocks represent mantle material. Ultramafic rocks occur in a variety of field and petrographic associations : in recent reviews, Wyllie [1967b, 1968] outlined eleven petrographic associations, some with subdivisions. In this summary, it is convenient to consider these in four larger groups: (1) layered, stratifo...

An introduction to the Bouguer anomaly map of Finland is presented. Anomaly sources from surface to upper mantle are discussed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Related density variations are reviewed. The article is based on gravity data from the Finnish Geodetic Institute supplemented by petrophysical and gravity data from the Geological Survey of Finland. The Finnish Geodetic Institute ...