Geology & Serpentine
Barnes I, Lamarche VC Jr, Himmelberg G. Geochemical evidence of present-day serpentinization. Science. 1967; 156 (3776): 830-832. doi:10.1126/science.156.3776.830
Ultrabasic (pH > 11) water issues from some fresh ultramafic bodies. The properties of the ultrabasic solutions are believed to be due to current reactions yielding serpentine from primary olivines and pyroxenes. The low concentrations of divalent airon. divalent magnesium, and dissolved silica from the serpentinization require an increase in rock volume.
RH Whitaker, Ecology of Serpentine Soils, Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 2 (April 1954), 258-288.
Melosh, B. L. (2019). Fault initiation in serpentinite. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 2626–2646. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC008092
CGS NOTE 57: SERPENTINITE AND SERPENTINE IN CALIFORNIA, California Dept. of Conservation
Klein, F., Goldsby, D. L., Lin, J., & Andreani, M. (2022). Carbonation of serpentinite in creeping faults of California. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL099185. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099185
Brady, Kruckeberg, Bradshaw Jr, EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF PLANT ADAPTATION TO SERPENTINE SOILS, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 2005. 36:243–66 (2005)
Oze, Christopher & Skinner, Catherine & Schroth, Andrew & Coleman, Robert. (2008). Growing up green on serpentine soils: Biogeochemistry of serpentine vegetation in the Central Coast Range of California. Applied Geochemistry - APPL GEOCHEM. 23. 3391-3403. 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.07.014.
DONALD E WHITE; THERMAL WATERS OF VOLCANIC ORIGIN. GSA Bulletin 1957; 68 (12): 1637–1658. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1957)68[1637:TWOVO]2.0.CO;2
Ultrabasic (pH > 11) water issues from some fresh ultramafic bodies. The properties of the ultrabasic solutions are believed to be due to current reactions yielding serpentine from primary olivines and pyroxenes. The low concentrations of divalent airon. divalent magnesium, and dissolved silica from the serpentinization require an increase in rock volume.
RH Whitaker, Ecology of Serpentine Soils, Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 2 (April 1954), 258-288.
Melosh, B. L. (2019). Fault initiation in serpentinite. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 2626–2646. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC008092
CGS NOTE 57: SERPENTINITE AND SERPENTINE IN CALIFORNIA, California Dept. of Conservation
Klein, F., Goldsby, D. L., Lin, J., & Andreani, M. (2022). Carbonation of serpentinite in creeping faults of California. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL099185. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099185
Brady, Kruckeberg, Bradshaw Jr, EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF PLANT ADAPTATION TO SERPENTINE SOILS, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 2005. 36:243–66 (2005)
Oze, Christopher & Skinner, Catherine & Schroth, Andrew & Coleman, Robert. (2008). Growing up green on serpentine soils: Biogeochemistry of serpentine vegetation in the Central Coast Range of California. Applied Geochemistry - APPL GEOCHEM. 23. 3391-3403. 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.07.014.
DONALD E WHITE; THERMAL WATERS OF VOLCANIC ORIGIN. GSA Bulletin 1957; 68 (12): 1637–1658. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1957)68[1637:TWOVO]2.0.CO;2