Complex carbonate phases, such as cation-ordered ankerite, may control the thermodynamics of carbonation during carbon dioxide sequestration, according to mineralogical and microstructural analysis of carbonate nodules from core samples from a field-scale CO2 storage experiment in basalt from the Grand Ronde Basalt Formation, USA.
- Nabajit Lahiri
- Libor Kovarik
- H. Todd Schaef