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Is it true that exfoliation is the effect that ground water has on limestone?
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Does limestone turn water blue?
No, limestone is a sedimentary rock that is the basis for marble if it is compressed by millions of years of pressure. Limestone consists of calcium carbonate, CaCO3. Limestone dissolved in slightly acidic water forms the basis of stalactites and stalagmites in limestone caves.
What is water that soaks into the ground called?
The water that soaks in ground called as ground water .
Why do be people sprinkle water on the roof or open ground?
When people sprinkle water on hot and dry roof on a sunny day, that water evaporates by taking energy from the ground, roof and surroundings. The evaporation of water causes a cooling effect because the large latent heat of vaporization of water helps to cool the hot surface.
What happens when limestone gets wet?
The acidity of rainwater acts to help dissolve limestone through a chemical reaction with the calcium carbonate. Limestone is mostly made up of the mineral calcium carbonate ( CaCO 3 ) this is not very soluble so the rocks don't dissolve very quickly. If you add an acid however you add Hydrogen Ions ( H+ ) which will react with the carbonate to form hydrogen carbonate HCO3- ions which are very soluble in water, and the limestone will dissolve. Or if there is more acid about the two Hydrogen ions will react with a carbonate to form H2CO3 which will decompose to form carbon dioxide CO2 and water H2O. The acid can come from a variety of sources sulphur and nitrogen oxides released by burning fuels will form sulphuric and nitric acids, can carbon-dioxide can dissolve in water to form carbonic acid.
Some water soaks into the ground as?
Some water soaks into to the ground as runoff. This runoff can then become part of the local water table.
When limestone on the surface is dissolved by ground water it forms?
caverns
A depression in the ground due to cave collapse or acidic water dissolution of limestone is called a?
A sinkhole is the term used to describe a depression in the ground caused by a cave collapse. It can also be the result of acidic water dissolving limestone.
What has the author Richard A Downing written?
Richard A. Downing has written: 'The ground-water hydrology of the Lincolnshire Limestone with special reference to the ground-water resources' -- subject(s): Groundwater, Hydrology, Limestone, Stratigraphic Geology
How is the effect of water of a sugar cube similar to groundwater eroding limestone?
sugar cubes dissolve faster than limestone
What forms when weak acids in ground water come in contact with limestone?
caves
What forms when underground layers of limestone are dissolved by ground water?
yes i guss
Can limestone be found in caves?
It's found around them! The vast majority of the world's caves are formed in limestone (soluble in ground-water).
What is formed when carbon acid in ground water seeps through limestone?
i dint know.
Solid limestone may change into a cave when?
It doesn't! :-)) Caves represent a loss of rock, not a change, by dissolution of the limestone by weakly acid ground-water.
What kind of limestone might be deposited in Mammouth Caves?
CALCITE - cryastaline calcium carbonate precipitated from the ground-water that had dissolved it from the limestone above the cave. Calcium Carbonate is the primary constituent of limestone.
What do you call caves made by water?
Karst caves, and it is the majority of caves; formed by acidic ground-water dissolving the limestone.
There are underground caverns in the Yucatán Peninsula because?
water seeps through the ground and dissolves the limestone bedrock.
