Almost 230 years after it was first described, formation of the mineral dolomite remains enigmatic. Dolomitic rocks are abundant throughout geological record, and most thought to form by replacement limestone. Recent work has identified substantial volumes high-temperature primary deposited in Cretaceous lacustrine rift basins Northern China. Here we provide missing conceptual understanding fun...

Clumped isotopes geothermometry was applied to two dolomitic hydrocarbon reservoirs. Results indicate that late burial dolomitization occurred at ~110°C in the Albian Pinda dolostone (offshore Angola) and ~90°C in the Mano-Meillon dolostone (Aquitaine Basin, France), and did not continue on during subsequent burial/thermal evolution to present-day conditions (150160°C). This study illustrates t...

Bulk X-ray mineralogy of 47 hemipelagic mud and clay samples from the Blake Outer Ridge has revealed that the sediments contain low magnesian calcite, calcian dolomite, ferroan dolomite, and magnesian siderite. Dolomite and siderite are authigenic and occur as rhombohedrons scattered through the sediments, whereas calcite is mostly biogenic. Pliocene dolomitic lenses are made up of interlocking...

An innovative approach involving a collection of experiments to mimic and assess the different conditions (at selected time-pH-[Mg2+]-humidity) existing during carbonation process in dolomitic mortars is proposed with combination micro-analytical imaging techniques, namely: optical electron microscopy, micro-Fourier-Transform Infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy synchrotron-based micro X-r...

Acidic deposition and subsequent forest soil acidification and nutrient depletion can affect negatively the growth, health and nutrient content of vegetation, potentially limiting the availability and nutrient content of forage for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and other forest herbivores. Liming is a mitigation technique that can be used to restore forest health in acidified areas...

Unusual dolomite substrates present a phenomenon known as dolomitophily, which refers to the specificity of flora that grows on them. Within dolomitic flora, one most widespread plants in Spain is characteristic species Pterocephalus spathulatus (Lag.) Coult., forms whitish prostrate thymes. The study focused knowledge about ionome (or elementome) and some its applications, both terms nutrition...