A submerged stalactite from Belize: Petrography, geochemistry, and geochronology of massive marine cementation
Submerged sink holes and cave systems associated with oceanic limestone platforms often contain speleothems and dripstone features which formed during subaerial exposure during glacially lowered sea level. A large stalactite, collected from a 50 meter deep terrace within the “Blue Hole” on Lighthous...
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| description | Submerged sink holes and cave systems associated with oceanic limestone platforms often contain speleothems and dripstone features which formed during subaerial exposure during glacially lowered sea level. A large stalactite, collected from a 50 meter deep terrace within the “Blue Hole” on Lighthouse Reef, offshore from Belize, records the geochronology of the transition from subaerial exposure to marine submergence during Holocene sea level rise. The stalactite originally formed on the ceiling of a large cavern when sea level was at least 60 meters below its present stand. As sea level rose, flooding the cavern, the fresh water phase of dripstone formation terminated and a 12 cm-thick rind of botryoidal splays of radial-fibrous marine aragonite coated the stalactite. This is the most massive encrustation of Holocene marine cement known, and it precipitated from seawater which had been considerably modified during circulation through the carbonate platform. By approximately 3000 yBP, when sea water flooded the bank top, cement accretion had ended, and the complex speleothem was encrusted by a marine biolithite prior to falling to the mud-covered floor of the cavern. |
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