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The action of carbonic acid on what may produce skinholes caverns and formations like stalagmites?
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On limestone and gypsum (calcium carbonate and calcium sulphate, respectively). Oh, and I know you meant "sinkholes"!
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Carbonic acid forms when carbon dioxide is absorbed into water The action of carbonic acid on may produce sinkholes caverns and formations like stalagmites?
Limestone
What is the calcium carbonate cycle?
Plants and animals that secret lime (CaCO3) flourish in tropical seas. Shells Of CaCO3 in many pile up in shallow off shore waters where they cemented themselves into limestone. Slightly acid grown water is a solvent of limestone, and creates tunnels, caves, and even caverns along cracks or joints in the rock. Some of the dissolved calcium carbonate is redeposit in caves and caverns stalactites and stalagmites.
What is carbonic acid and how does it effect rock?
Carbonic acid is what forms when carbon dioxide dissolves in water. It is a weak acid but will over time, dissolve many rocks, especially carbonates such as limestone. To see what a very weak solution can do over millions of years one only has to visit Carlsbad Caverns or other karst caves found throughout the world.
How were salt caverns produced?
God
What are the observations when carbon powder is added to water?
limestone dissolves from it thus creating caves and caverns.
Carbonic acid forms when carbon dioxide is absorbed into water The action of carbonic acid on may produce sinkholes caverns and formations like stalagmites?
Limestone
How are carbonic acid caverns and dripstone related?
carbonic acid dissolves rock to form cavens, and dripstone is dissolved clcium corbonate in thr form of stalagmites/stalagtites
What forms under ground caverns?
Various formations can occur in underground caverns, including stalactites, which hang from the ceiling, stalagmites, which rise from the ground, and columns, which are formed when stalactites and stalagmites meet. Other formations include flowstones, which are formed by water flowing down cave walls, and soda straws, which are thin, hollow stalactites.
What dissolves limestone and forms caves or caverns?
Carbonic Acid .
What are Underground caverns are characterized by formations made of?
calcium carbonate
Granite sandstone limestone clay carbonic acid on one of these will produce sinkholes caverns and formations like stalagmites?
Dreadful grammar! If this is someone's homework, direct plagiarism of this text will stand out like a sore thumb. To answer the question.... Of them, only limestone or perhaps sandstone but only if cemented by calcite, is soluble in acidic water. The rest are insoluble, although granite decays by extremely slow hydrolysis of one of its minerals (the feldspar if I remember correctly).
What does groundwater naturally contain that allows it to dissolve limestone and caverns?
Carbonic Acid
What does groundwater naturally contain that allows it to dissolve limestone and form caverns?
Carbonic Acid
Large amounts of carbonic acid are found in what?
Limestone and places like limestone caverns.
Underground caverns are characterized by formations made of?
i don't know that's why I asked you
Caves and caverns are formed in carbonate rocks by?
The reaction of carbonic acid in rain and groundwater with the carbonate rock.
What causes icicles to form in a cavern?
Caverns that form in limestone areas, due to rain water dissolving the limestone over millions of years, produce stalactites and stalagmites. Stalactites are icicle-like rock formations of deposited limestone hanging down from the cavern's roof. Stalagmites grow upwards from the cavern floor, due to the limestone solution dripping on the floor from the roof. In some cases, the stalactite and stalagmite joins in the middle to form a column.
