Sulfate minerals: their origin in the central kentucky karst

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Publication Date

January 1965

Publication Title

American Mineralogist

Volume Number

50

Issue Number

9

Abstract

Sulfate minerals, especially gypsum, are present in large quantities in most of the extensive limestone caves of the Mississippian plateaus and outliers of Central Kentucky. Many descriptions of these deposits have been published (Locke, 1842; Weller, 1927; Huff, 1940); however, the origin of the deposits has remained obscure.

Keywords

Carbonate, Rocks, Edmonson, County, Kentucky, Geochemistry, Gypsum, Ion, Exchange, Limestone, Mammoth Cave, Mineral Composition, Mineralogy, Origin, Processes, Sedimentary Rocks, Sulfates, United States, Gypsum Origin, Replacement Of Carbonate By Sulfate

Document Type

Article

Language

English

Identifier

SFS0069888_00001

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