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Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
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University of California - Riverside
Caption: Dolomite cement, formed from oxidized methane as it evolved from melting methane hydrates at the end of the snowball Earth glaciation, present in wave-cut platforms at Marino Rocks, South Australia. The dolomite is orange-red and formed vertical plumbing of tubes and vugs as methane passed upward and disrupted overlying sediment.
Credit: M. Kennedy, UC Riverside.
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