In-situ Growth of Calcite at Devils Hole, Nevada: Comparison of Field and Laboratory Rates to a 500,000 Year Record of Near-Equilibrium Calcite Growth

• Main Authors: Plummer, L. Niel, Busenberg, Eurybiades, Riggs, Alan C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2000
• Subjects: Calcite Growth; Calcite Precipitation; Carbonate Groundwater; Devil's Hole; Near-Equilibrium Rates; Devils Hole; Iceland
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/2621; https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009627710476

Calcite grew continuously for 500,000 years on the submerged walls of an open fault plane (Devils Hole) in southern Nevada, U.S.A. at rates of 0.3 to 1.3 mm/ka, but ceased growing approximately 60,000 years ago, even though the fault plane remained open and was continuously submerged. The maximum in...