Extremely acid Permian lakes and ground waters in North America

Kathleen Counter Benison (), Robert H. Goldstein, Brigitte Wopenka, Robert C. Burruss and Jill Dill Pasteris
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Kathleen Counter Benison: The University of Kansas
Robert H. Goldstein: The University of Kansas
Brigitte Wopenka: Washington University
Robert C. Burruss: US Geological Survey
Jill Dill Pasteris: Washington University

Nature, 1998, vol. 392, issue 6679, 911-914

Abstract: 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

Date: 1998
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