Formación de yeso autigénico en la llanura de inundación del río Tinto (Huelva): Implicaciones paleoambientales.

• Fernández Caliani, J.C. ^[1] ; Galán, E. ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad de Huelva

     Universidad de Huelva

     Huelva, España

     
  2. [2] Universidad Sevilla, España
• Localización: Geogaceta, ISSN 0213-683X, Nº. 21, 1996 (Ejemplar dedicado a: 21a Sesión Científica, Huelva 1996), págs. 101-104
• Idioma: español
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  • Formation of authigenic gypsum on the flood plain of the Tinto river (Huelva): Paleoenvironmental implications
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  • This paper describes the occurrence of authigenic gypsum on the flood plain of the Río Tinto, a river highly polluted by acid mine-drainage. Gypsum appears typically as isolated tabular crystals of selenite scatteres within the muddy sediment and associated with clay minerals, quartz, feldspars and halite. Both field and experimental data strongly suggest that the gypsum precipitated authigenicalIy on the mudflat as a result of the reaction of acidic sulphate waters with detrital and biogenic calcite localIy supplied by unpolluted tributaries. Consequently, in this case the presence of authigenic gypsum could be used as a paleoenvironmental indicator of the stream contamination.