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🪨 Stylolite Pressure-Dissolution Seams

Explore how pressure-solution creep at grain contacts under overburden stress carves jagged, interpenetrating stylolite seams and concentrates insoluble residue.

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The simulation demonstrates how differential stress at a grain contact drives pressure-solution dissolution, producing a jagged, interpenetrating stylolite seam whose insoluble residue thickens progressively as soluble minerals are removed.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

🎮 How to Use

Adjust the overburden stress, fluid saturation, and insoluble content sliders to watch the stylolite seam nucleate, grow teeth, and accumulate a visible dark residue layer in real time.

💡 Did You Know?

Some stylolite seams record enough cumulative dissolution to indicate that over a third of the original rock's thickness was chemically removed and carried away in pore fluid.

⚙ Under the hood

Explore how pressure-solution creep at grain contacts under overburden stress carves jagged, interpenetrating stylolite seams and concentrates insoluble residue.

geologydiagenesispressure solutionstylolitessedimentary rocksstructural geologycarbonate rocksburial diagenesis

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