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The Precipitation of Calcium Carbonate on the Great Bahama Bank

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Maurice Black
Maurice Black
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Trinity College, Cambridge.
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In the spring of 1930 the International Expedition to the Bahamas made several traverses over the shoals west of Andros Island in order to study the sedimentation of calcium carbonate in this region, and along three of these lines water samples were collected at regular intervals. The chlorine content of each of these samples was determined by the author in the Chemical Laboratory at the University of Princeton, New Jersey, and the total salinity was obtained by calculation.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 70 , Issue 10 , October 1933 , pp. 455 - 466
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1933

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