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Cristalización no clásica en Carbonatos de la Cueva de Nerja, España

Authors: Bonilla-Correa, S.; Asta, M. P.; Ruiz-Agudo, Encarnación; Jiménez de Cisneros, Concepción; Liñán Baena, Cristina;

Cristalización no clásica en Carbonatos de la Cueva de Nerja, España

Abstract

Investigaciones recientes han revelado que, en numerosos sistemas naturales, los carbonatos cristalinos se originan a partir de un precursor amorfo mediante un proceso de cristalización no clásica. En este trabajo hemos estudiado muestras de "moonmilk" recogidas en dos de las salas turísticas, Cascada y Cataclismo, de la Cueva de Nerja. Esta cueva se desarrolla en los mármoles dolomíticos triásicos de la Unidad de Almijara, en las Zonas Internas de la Cordillera Bética (SE, España). Las muestras fueron caracterizadas mediante diversas técnicas: difracción de rayos X de alta resolución en sincrotrón (HRXRD), difracción de rayos X (XRD), microscopía electrónica de barrido (SEM), espectroscopía infrarroja por transformada de Fourier (FTIR), termogravimetría (TG-DSC) y microscopía electrónica de transmisión (TEM). En los depósitos de "moonmilk" estudiados, y formados a relativamente bajas temperaturas (temperatura media anual de la cueva es de 18,1 ± 0,1 °C, se detectó la presencia de carbonato de calcio y magnesio amorfo (AMC), huntita (CaMg3(CO3)4) y dolomita CaMg(CO3)2. Nuestros resultados sugieren que el AMC habría jugado un papel fundamental como precursor en la formación de carbonatos cristalinos de Ca-Mg.

[EN] Recent investigations suggest that crystalline carbonate formation is in many natural environments preceded by the formation of amorphous through non-classical nucleation pathways. Here, we have studied moon-milk samples collected in the touristic sector of the cave, specifically in the Cascada and Cataclismo chambers of the Nerja Cave. This cave is developed within the middle Triassic dolomitic marbles of the Almijara Unit, in the Internal Zone of the Betic Cordillera (SE Spain). The samples were characterized using several techniques: synchrotron high-resolution X-ray diffraction (HR-XRD), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetry (TG-DSC), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In these "moonmilk" deposits, formed at relatively low temperatures (mean annual temperature in the cave is 18.1 ± 0.1 °C, amorphous calcium magnesium carbonate (AMC), huntite (CaMg3(CO3)4), and dolomite CaMg(CO3)2 were detected. Our results suggest the important role of AMC in the formation of Ca-Mg crystalline carbonates.

Se agradece el apoyo financiero proporcionado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España a través del proyecto de investigación PID2021-125305NB-I00 y a la Junta de Andalucía a través del programa de investigación EMERGIA bajo el acuerdo de subvención EMERGIA20_38594.

Presentado en el XI Congreso Geológico de España, Ávila (España), 2 al 6 de julio de 2024

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Keywords

Huntita, AMC, Dolomita, Moonmilk

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