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Solution breccias

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Solution breccias are common and widespread in the geological record. Brecciation may occur entirely within one soluble rock (usually limestone or dolostone) or where more soluble evaporites are removed in mixed evaporite–carbonate and evaporite–redbed sequences. It may be extended upward by mechanical failure (stoping) into overlying insoluble strata, e.g., dissolution of ∼180 m of salt has propagated through 400 m of carbonates overlain by ∼650 m of clays, mudstones, and sandstones at a site in Saskatchewan (Christiansen and Sauer, 2001).

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A dolomite and dedolomite solution breccia created by preferential dissolution of gypsum in a sabkha sequence, the Bear Rock Formation (Lower–Middle Devonian) at Bear Rock near Fort Norman, Northwest Territories, Canada. The section is ∼15 m in height.

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  1. School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University, 1280 Main St West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada

    Derek Ford

  2. 187 Cedar Island Rd, Orillia, Ontario, L3V IT2, Canada

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  1. School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University, 1280 Main St West, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada

    Gerard V. Middleton

  2. Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T IZ2, Canada

    Michael J. Church

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G I, Canada

    Mario Coniglio

  4. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

    Lawrence A. Hardie

  5. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada

    Frederick J. Longstaffe

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Ford, D. (1978). Solution breccias. In: Middleton, G.V., Church, M.J., Coniglio, M., Hardie, L.A., Longstaffe, F.J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3609-5_217

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