THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON THE KINETICS OF CALCITE DISSOLUTION AND PRECIPITATION

摘要

INTRODUCTION Dissolution and precipitation of carbonates plays an important role in nature, such as in the chemistry of seawater, the sedimentation of carbonate at the seafloor, the geochemical evolution of freshwater aquifers and last but not least, most spectacular, the evolution of karst landscapes. To provide a deeper understanding to all these processes knowledge is required on