Dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate

Berner, R.A. Morse, J.M. 1974. Dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate in seawater. IV. Theory of calcite dissolution, American Journal of Science, 274,108-134. 

Liu Z, Dreybrodt W. Dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate minerals in H20-C02 solutions in turbulent flow—the role of the diffusion boundary layer and the slow reaction H20 + CO2 <-> H+ + HC03. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 1997 61(14) 2879-2889. 

Morse J.W. (1978) Dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate in seawater. VI The near-equilibrium dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate-rich deep sea sediments. Amer. J. Sci. 278, 344-355. 

Calcium carbonate is accumulating in deep ocean sediments, in which the overlying water is undersaturated with respect to both aragonite and calcite, and sediment marker levels closely correspond to unique saturation states. This indicates that dissolution kinetics play an important role in determining the relation between seawater chemistry and calcium carbonate accumulation in deep ocean basins. It is, therefore, necessary to have knowledge of the dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate in seawater if the accumulation of calcium carbonate is to be understood. 

Edmond, J.M. An interpretation of the calcite spheres experiment [abst.], Amer. Geophys. Union 52, 256 (1971). Morse, J.W. and Berner, R.A. Dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate in sea water II. A kinetic origin for the lysocline, Amer. Jour. Sci. 272, 840-851 (1972). ... 

Morse, J.W., de Kanel, J., and Harris, K. The dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate in seawater VII. The dissolution kinetics of synthetic aragonite and pteropods, Amer. Jour. Sci. (in press). 

Berelson W. M., Hammond D. E., McManus J., and Kilgore T. E. (1994) Dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate in equatorial Pacific sediments. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 8, 219-235. 

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