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A PROMINENT feature of the South Eastern Province of South Australia is the system of lagoons associated with a long narrow arm of the sea, the Coorong, formed by a receding and partly resubmerged coastline. In some of these lagoons, as well as in the shallow waters at the closed end of the Coorong, dolomite-calcite sediment is forming, apparently by direct precipitation from saline waters1,2.
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ALDERMAN, A., VON DER BORCH, C. Occurrence of Hydromagnesite in Sediments in South Australia. Nature 188, 931 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188931a0
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