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Lakes hosted by silicate basement rocks are more acidic than lakes within limestone or other basement rocks with a carbonate composition (i.e. marble) due to buffering effects by carbonate minerals, even with the same amount of acid rain.
In more acidic, deep waters rich in CO 2 the carbonatic shells of other organisms (like foraminifera) dissolve, enriching the resulting sediment in siliceous ooze. Indeed, in present-day oceans, siliceous oozes accumulate on abyssal plains at more than 4000-5000 meters depth.
Lakes hosted by silicate basement rocks are more acidic than lakes within limestone or other basement rocks with a carbonate composition due to buffering effects by carbonate minerals, even with the same amount of acid rain. Soil biology and chemistry can be seriously damaged by acid rain.
- Dissolution
- Hydrolysis
- Hydration
- Oxidation
Dissolution reactions produce ions, but no minerals, and are reversible if the solvent is removed. A household example would be dissolving a teaspoon of table salt (the mineral halite) in a glass of water. The halite will separate into Na+ and Cl– ions. If the water in the glass is allowed to evaporate, there will not be enough water molecules to h...
The term hydrolysis combines the prefix hydro, referring to water, with lysis, which is derived from a Greek word meaning to loosen or dissolve. Thus, you can think of hydrolysis as a chemical reaction where water loosens the chemical bonds within a mineral. This might sound the same as dissolution but the difference is that hydrolysis produces a d...
Hydration reactions involve water being added to the chemical structure of a mineral. An example of a hydration reaction is when anhydrite (CaSO4) is transformed into gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O). A consequence of hydration is that the resulting mineral has a greater volume than the original mineral. In the case of the Mosul Dam, hydration of anhydrite has ...
Oxidation happens when free oxygen (i.e., oxygen not bound up in molecules with other elements) is involved in chemical reactions. Oxidation reactions provide valuable insight into Earth’s early surface conditions because there is a clear transition in the rock record from rocks containing no minerals that are products of oxidation reactions, to ro...
- Karla Panchuk
- 2019
Potassium feldspar and sodium-rich plagioclase feldspar are abundant in the rock of the continental crust while calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar is abundant in the rock of oceanic crust. Together with quartz, these minerals are classified as framework silicates because they are built with a three-dimensional framework of silica tetrahedra.
Dec 16, 2022 · The most common sedimentary rocks – including shale, sandstone, and conglomerate – form from siliciclastic sediments. Other kinds of sedimentary rocks consist of carbonates (in limestones), iron oxides and hydroxides (such as hematite or goethite in iron formation), or other minerals.
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Jun 13, 2024 · Silicate minerals form the largest group of minerals on Earth, comprising the vast majority of the Earth’s mantle and crust. Of the nearly four thousand known minerals on Earth, most are rare. There are only a few that make up most of the rocks likely to be encountered by us.
