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Extremely acid Permian lakes and ground waters in North America

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  • Kathleen Counter Benison

    (The University of Kansas
    Kansas Geological Survey
    Central Michigan University)

  • Robert H. Goldstein

    (The University of Kansas)

  • Brigitte Wopenka

    (Washington University)

  • Robert C. Burruss

    (US Geological Survey)

  • Jill Dill Pasteris

    (Washington University)

Abstract

Evaporites hosted by red beds (red shales and sandstones), some 275–265 million years old, extend over a large area of the North American mid-continent1. They were deposited in non-marine saline lakes, pans and mud-flats2, settings that are typically assumed to have been alkaline. Here we use laser Raman microprobe analyses of fluid inclusions trapped in halites from these Permian deposits to argue for the existence of highly acidic (pH

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  • Kathleen Counter Benison & Robert H. Goldstein & Brigitte Wopenka & Robert C. Burruss & Jill Dill Pasteris, 1998. "Extremely acid Permian lakes and ground waters in North America," Nature, Nature, vol. 392(6679), pages 911-914, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:392:y:1998:i:6679:d:10.1038_31917
    DOI: 10.1038/31917
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