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.
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.
Sliders for overburden stress, pore-fluid saturation, insoluble residue fraction, and simulation time-step speed
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.