process in all the hydrological models involves seawater,
somehow modified, and dissolution – precipitation associated with repeated fluctuations such as tidal pumping,
wave action, deep ocean currents, sea-level oscillations,
pulses of thermally elevated water flow, etc. The process
of dolomite formation may be penecontemporaneous with
sedimentation but it is more frequently postdepositional,
even diagenetic. Sometimes, there can be a considerable
time delay of the order of 100 m.a. between sedimentation
and dolomite formation.
The more recent realization that anaerobic bacteria can
play a role in the primary precipitation of dolomite is an
avenue for fruitful research in addressing the topic of dolomite formation and occurrence.
Bibliography
Aharon, P., Socki, R. A., and Chan, L., 1987. Dolomitization of
atolls by sea water convection flow: test of a hypothesis at Niue,
South Pacific. Journal of Geology, 95, 187–203.
Aissaoui, D. M., 1988. Magnesium Calcite cements and their diagenesis: dissolution and dolomitization, Muroura Atoll. Sedimentology, 35, 821–841.
Aissaoui, D. M., Buigues, D., and Purser, B. H., 1986. Model of reef
diagenesis: Mururoa Atoll, French Polynesia. In Schroeder,
J. H., and Purser, B. H. (eds.), Reef Diagenesis. Heidelberg:
Springer, pp. 27–52.
Bardintzeff, J. M., Brousse, R., and Gachon, A., 1985. Conditions
of building of coral reefs on a volcano: Mururoa in Tuamotu
and Rurutu in Australes, French Polynesia. In Proceedings
Fifth International Coral Reef Conference, Tahiti, Vol. 6,
pp. 401–405.
Bourrouilh, F., 1973. Dolomitization actuelle dans le monde. Une
revue. Sciences de la Terre (Nancy), 18, 279–298.
Braithwaite, C. J. R., 1991. Dolomites, a review of origins, geometry and textures. Transactions Royal Society Edinburgh: Earth
Sciences, 82, 99–112.
Braithwaite, C. J. R., Dalmasso, H., Gilmore, M. A., Harkness,
D. D., Henderson, G. M., Kay, R. L. F., Kroon, D., Montaggioni,
L. F., and Wilson, P. A., 2004. The great barrier reef: the chronological record from a new borehole. Journal of Sedimentary
Research, 74, 298–310.
Chevalier, J. P., 1973. Coral reefs of New Caledonia. In Jones,
O. A., and Endean, R. (eds.), Biology and Geology of Coral
Reefs. New York: Academic, pp. 143–147.
Coudray, J., 1971. Nouvelles donnees sur la nature et l’origine du
complexe recifal de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Quaternary
Research, 1, 236–246.
Cullis, C. G., 1904. The mineralogical changes observed in the
cores of the Funafati borings. In Bonney, T. G. (ed.), The Atoll
of Funafuti. Boring into a coral reef and the results. The Royal
Society of London, pp. 392–420.
Deelman, J. C., 1999. Low-temperature nucleation of magnesite
and dolomite. Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte,
Stuttgart, Jg. H, 7, 289–302.
Deelman, J. C., 2008. Low-temperature formation of dolomite and
magnesite. (Online) Available from World Wide Web: http://
www.jcdeelman.demon.nl/dolomite/bookprospectus.html. version 2.2, accessed 12/12/2009.
Fairbridge, R. W., 1950. Recent and Pleistocene coral reefs of
Australia. The Journal of Geology, 58, 330–401.
Fairbridge, R. W., 1957. The dolomite question. In Le Blanc, R. J.,
and Breeding, J. G. (eds.), Regional Aspects of Carbonate
Deposition. Special Publication Society of Economic
Palaeontologists and Mineralogists, 5, pp. 125–178.
Flood, P. G., 1998. Origin of white succrosic dolomite within
shallow-water limestones ODP Hole 866A, Resolution Guyot,
Mid-pacific Mountains: strontium isotopic evidence for the role
of sea water in dolomitization. Special Publication International
Association of Sedimentologists, 25, pp. 137–144.
Flood, P. G., and Chivas, A. R., 1995. Origin of massive dolomite,
Leg 143, Hole 866A, Resolution Guyot, Mid-Pacific Mountains.
In Proceedings Ocean-Drilling Program, Scientific Results,
Vol. 143, pp. 161–169.
Flood, P. G., Fagerstrom, J. A., and Rougerie, F., 1996. Interpretation of the origin of massive replacive dolomite within atolls
and submerged carbonate platforms: strontium isotopic signature ODP Hole 866A, Resolution Guyot, Mid-Pacific Mountains. Sedimentary Geology, 101, 9–13.
Fowles, J., 1991. Dolomite: the mineral that shouldn’t exist. New
Scientist, 132, 38–42.
Hardie, L. A., 1987. Dolomitization: a critical view of some current
views. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 57, 166–183.
Hsu, K. J., 1966. Origin of dolomite in sedimentary sequences:
a critical analysis. Mineralium Deposita, 1(2), 133–138.
International Consortium for Great Barrier Reef Drilling, 2001.
New constraints on the origin of the Australian Great Barrier
Reef: results from an international project of deep coring. Geology, 29, 483–486.
Ladd, H. S., Ingerson, E., Townsend, R. C., Russel, M., and
Stephenson, H. K., 1953. Drilling on eniwetok atoll, marshall
islands. Bulletin American Association Petroleum Geologists,
Vol. 37, pp. 2257–2280.
Ladd, H. S., Tracey, J. I., and Grant Cross, M., 1970. Deep drillings
on Midway Atoll. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Papers
680A, pp. A1–A22.
Ladd, H. S., Tracey, J. I., and Lill, G. G., 1948. Drilling on Bikini
Atoll, Marshall Islands. Science, 107, 51–55.
Land, L. S., 1985. The origin of massive dolomite. Journal Geological Education, 33, 112–125.
Land, L. S., 1998. Failure to precipitate dolomite at 25
C from
dilute solution despite 1000-fold oversaturation after 32 years.
Aquatic Geochemistry, 4, 361–368.
Machel, H. G., 2004. Concepts and models of dolomitization:
a critical appraisal. In Braithwaite, C. J. R., Rizzi, G., and Darke,
G. (eds.), The Geometry and Petrogenesis of Dolomite Hydrocarbon Reservoirs. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 235, pp. 7–63.
Machel, H. G., and Mountjoy, E. W., 1986. Chemistry and environments of dolomitization a reappraisal. Earth Science Reviews,
23, 175–222.
Mckenzie, J. A., 1991. The dolomite problem: and outstanding controversy. In Muller, D. W., McKenzie, J. A., and Weisserl, H.
(eds.), Controversies in Modern Geology. London: Academic,
pp. 37–54.
McKenzie, J. A., and Vasconcelos, C., 2009. Dolomite Mountains
and the origin of the dolomite rock of which they mainly consist:
historical developments and new perspectives. Sedimentology,
56, 205–219.
Mitchell, J. T., Land, L. S., and Miser, D. E., 1987. Modern marine
dolomite cement in a north Jamaican fringing reef. Geology, 15,
557–560.
Montaggioni, L., and Braithwaite, C., 2009. Quaternary Coral Reef
Systems. Developments in Marine Geology, 5.
Purser, B. H., Tucker, M. E., and Zenger, D. H., 1994. Problems,
progress and future research concerning dolomites and
dolomitization. In Purser, B., Tucker, M., and Zenger, D.
(eds.), Dolomites, a Volume in Honour of Dolomieu. Special
324
DOLOMITIZATION
somehow modified, and dissolution – precipitation associated with repeated fluctuations such as tidal pumping,
wave action, deep ocean currents, sea-level oscillations,
pulses of thermally elevated water flow, etc. The process
of dolomite formation may be penecontemporaneous with
sedimentation but it is more frequently postdepositional,
even diagenetic. Sometimes, there can be a considerable
time delay of the order of 100 m.a. between sedimentation
and dolomite formation.
The more recent realization that anaerobic bacteria can
play a role in the primary precipitation of dolomite is an
avenue for fruitful research in addressing the topic of dolomite formation and occurrence.
Bibliography
Aharon, P., Socki, R. A., and Chan, L., 1987. Dolomitization of
atolls by sea water convection flow: test of a hypothesis at Niue,
South Pacific. Journal of Geology, 95, 187–203.
Aissaoui, D. M., 1988. Magnesium Calcite cements and their diagenesis: dissolution and dolomitization, Muroura Atoll. Sedimentology, 35, 821–841.
Aissaoui, D. M., Buigues, D., and Purser, B. H., 1986. Model of reef
diagenesis: Mururoa Atoll, French Polynesia. In Schroeder,
J. H., and Purser, B. H. (eds.), Reef Diagenesis. Heidelberg:
Springer, pp. 27–52.
Bardintzeff, J. M., Brousse, R., and Gachon, A., 1985. Conditions
of building of coral reefs on a volcano: Mururoa in Tuamotu
and Rurutu in Australes, French Polynesia. In Proceedings
Fifth International Coral Reef Conference, Tahiti, Vol. 6,
pp. 401–405.
Bourrouilh, F., 1973. Dolomitization actuelle dans le monde. Une
revue. Sciences de la Terre (Nancy), 18, 279–298.
Braithwaite, C. J. R., 1991. Dolomites, a review of origins, geometry and textures. Transactions Royal Society Edinburgh: Earth
Sciences, 82, 99–112.
Braithwaite, C. J. R., Dalmasso, H., Gilmore, M. A., Harkness,
D. D., Henderson, G. M., Kay, R. L. F., Kroon, D., Montaggioni,
L. F., and Wilson, P. A., 2004. The great barrier reef: the chronological record from a new borehole. Journal of Sedimentary
Research, 74, 298–310.
Chevalier, J. P., 1973. Coral reefs of New Caledonia. In Jones,
O. A., and Endean, R. (eds.), Biology and Geology of Coral
Reefs. New York: Academic, pp. 143–147.
Coudray, J., 1971. Nouvelles donnees sur la nature et l’origine du
complexe recifal de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Quaternary
Research, 1, 236–246.
Cullis, C. G., 1904. The mineralogical changes observed in the
cores of the Funafati borings. In Bonney, T. G. (ed.), The Atoll
of Funafuti. Boring into a coral reef and the results. The Royal
Society of London, pp. 392–420.
Deelman, J. C., 1999. Low-temperature nucleation of magnesite
and dolomite. Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte,
Stuttgart, Jg. H, 7, 289–302.
Deelman, J. C., 2008. Low-temperature formation of dolomite and
magnesite. (Online) Available from World Wide Web: http://
www.jcdeelman.demon.nl/dolomite/bookprospectus.html. version 2.2, accessed 12/12/2009.
Fairbridge, R. W., 1950. Recent and Pleistocene coral reefs of
Australia. The Journal of Geology, 58, 330–401.
Fairbridge, R. W., 1957. The dolomite question. In Le Blanc, R. J.,
and Breeding, J. G. (eds.), Regional Aspects of Carbonate
Deposition. Special Publication Society of Economic
Palaeontologists and Mineralogists, 5, pp. 125–178.
Flood, P. G., 1998. Origin of white succrosic dolomite within
shallow-water limestones ODP Hole 866A, Resolution Guyot,
Mid-pacific Mountains: strontium isotopic evidence for the role
of sea water in dolomitization. Special Publication International
Association of Sedimentologists, 25, pp. 137–144.
Flood, P. G., and Chivas, A. R., 1995. Origin of massive dolomite,
Leg 143, Hole 866A, Resolution Guyot, Mid-Pacific Mountains.
In Proceedings Ocean-Drilling Program, Scientific Results,
Vol. 143, pp. 161–169.
Flood, P. G., Fagerstrom, J. A., and Rougerie, F., 1996. Interpretation of the origin of massive replacive dolomite within atolls
and submerged carbonate platforms: strontium isotopic signature ODP Hole 866A, Resolution Guyot, Mid-Pacific Mountains. Sedimentary Geology, 101, 9–13.
Fowles, J., 1991. Dolomite: the mineral that shouldn’t exist. New
Scientist, 132, 38–42.
Hardie, L. A., 1987. Dolomitization: a critical view of some current
views. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 57, 166–183.
Hsu, K. J., 1966. Origin of dolomite in sedimentary sequences:
a critical analysis. Mineralium Deposita, 1(2), 133–138.
International Consortium for Great Barrier Reef Drilling, 2001.
New constraints on the origin of the Australian Great Barrier
Reef: results from an international project of deep coring. Geology, 29, 483–486.
Ladd, H. S., Ingerson, E., Townsend, R. C., Russel, M., and
Stephenson, H. K., 1953. Drilling on eniwetok atoll, marshall
islands. Bulletin American Association Petroleum Geologists,
Vol. 37, pp. 2257–2280.
Ladd, H. S., Tracey, J. I., and Grant Cross, M., 1970. Deep drillings
on Midway Atoll. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Papers
680A, pp. A1–A22.
Ladd, H. S., Tracey, J. I., and Lill, G. G., 1948. Drilling on Bikini
Atoll, Marshall Islands. Science, 107, 51–55.
Land, L. S., 1985. The origin of massive dolomite. Journal Geological Education, 33, 112–125.
Land, L. S., 1998. Failure to precipitate dolomite at 25
C from
dilute solution despite 1000-fold oversaturation after 32 years.
Aquatic Geochemistry, 4, 361–368.
Machel, H. G., 2004. Concepts and models of dolomitization:
a critical appraisal. In Braithwaite, C. J. R., Rizzi, G., and Darke,
G. (eds.), The Geometry and Petrogenesis of Dolomite Hydrocarbon Reservoirs. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 235, pp. 7–63.
Machel, H. G., and Mountjoy, E. W., 1986. Chemistry and environments of dolomitization a reappraisal. Earth Science Reviews,
23, 175–222.
Mckenzie, J. A., 1991. The dolomite problem: and outstanding controversy. In Muller, D. W., McKenzie, J. A., and Weisserl, H.
(eds.), Controversies in Modern Geology. London: Academic,
pp. 37–54.
McKenzie, J. A., and Vasconcelos, C., 2009. Dolomite Mountains
and the origin of the dolomite rock of which they mainly consist:
historical developments and new perspectives. Sedimentology,
56, 205–219.
Mitchell, J. T., Land, L. S., and Miser, D. E., 1987. Modern marine
dolomite cement in a north Jamaican fringing reef. Geology, 15,
557–560.
Montaggioni, L., and Braithwaite, C., 2009. Quaternary Coral Reef
Systems. Developments in Marine Geology, 5.
Purser, B. H., Tucker, M. E., and Zenger, D. H., 1994. Problems,
progress and future research concerning dolomites and
dolomitization. In Purser, B., Tucker, M., and Zenger, D.
(eds.), Dolomites, a Volume in Honour of Dolomieu. Special
324
DOLOMITIZATION