Dolomite Cement (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Dolomite Cement

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Dolomite cement, formed from oxidized methane as it evolved from melting methane hydrates at the end of the snowball Earth glaciation, present in wave-cut platforms at Marino Rocks, South Australia. The dolomite is orange-red and formed vertical plumbing of tubes and vugs as methane passed upward and disrupted overlying sediment.

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M. Kennedy, UC Riverside.

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