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Discussion of ‘Silicified serpentinite – a residuum of a Tertiary palaeo-weathering surface in the United Arab Emirates’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2014

A. M. Lacinska  and
M. T. Styles
A. M. Lacinska
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire NG12 5GG, UK; email: [email protected]
M. T. Styles
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire NG12 5GG, UK
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Alicja M. Lacinska and Michael T. Styles reply: We appreciate the comment by C. R. M. Butt on the publication by Lacinska & Styles (2013) on the silicified serpentinites described from the Hajar Mountains in the United Arab Emirates. This comment is based on his very extensive knowledge of laterites and regoliths from ancient shield areas around the world; the degree to which this knowledge is directly applicable to the rocks formed at the margins of a recently uplifted mountain range, as described in the original paper, is debatable.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 151 , Issue 6 , November 2014 , pp. 1147
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BGS © NERC 2014 

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Lacinska, A. M., Styles, M. T. & Farrant, A. R. 2014. Near-surface diagenesis of ophiolite-derived conglomerates of the Barzaman Formation, United Arab Emirates; a natural analogue for permanent CO2 sequestration via mineral carbonation of ultramafic rocks. In Tectonic Evolution of the Oman Mountains (eds Rollinson, H. R., Searle, M. P., Abbasi, I. A., Al-Lazki, A. & Kindi, M. H. Al), pp. 343–60. Geological Society of London, Special Publications no. 392.Google Scholar