TY - RPRT
T1 - Experiments Summarizing the Potential of CO2 Sequestration in the Basalts of Massachusetts – Final Report
Y1 - 2011
A1 - Petrick, Carrie
A1 - Stephen B Mabee
KW - #MGSPub
KW - #MGSPubs
KW - #Reports
KW - basalts
KW - Carbon
KW - carbonate
KW - climate change
KW - CO2
KW - Holyoke Basalt
KW - injection
KW - mineralization
KW - precipitation
KW - sequestration
AB - Basalts are gaining more attention as reservoirs for the geological sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2). The purpose of this report is to present the results of experiments that were conducted on the basalts in western Massachusetts and Connecticut to determine their potential to sequester CO2. There were two primary objectives of these experiments:
To recreate and validate prior carbonate mineralization experiments conducted on the Holyoke basalt by Schaef et al. (2009) from Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) and to test if their results are reproducible and geographically consistent within western Massachusetts and Connecticut, and, 2. To explore the possibility of reacting CO2 with basalt at the earth’s surface in an ex-situ mineral reactor and, in particular, to identify the optimum conditions necessary to precipitate large amounts of carbonate at the surface in a short time period by varying pressure, temperature, water volume, mass of sample and grain size in the experiments. Prepared for the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
PB - Massachusetts Geological Survey
CY - Amherst, MA
UR - http://www.geo.umass.edu/stategeologist/Products/reports/BasaltSequestrationReport.pdf
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TY - RPRT
T1 - Field Investigation of the Geology and Possible Pisolitic Bauxite Occurrence at Menemsha Hills Reservation, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
Y1 - 2008
A1 - Stephen B Mabee
A1 - Panish, P.
KW - #MGSPub
KW - #MGSPubs
KW - #Minerals
KW - #Reports
KW - aluminum
KW - bauxite
KW - ferricrete
KW - glacial
KW - hematite
KW - Holocene
KW - Martha's Vineyard
KW - Menemsha Hills
KW - minerals
KW - ore
KW - oxides
KW - pisolite
KW - pisolitic
KW - precipitation
KW - reservation
KW - thrust faults
KW - Trustees
KW - Vineyard
AB - The Office of the Massachusetts State Geologist was asked by The Trustees of Reservations to make an assessment of an unusual deposit of what appears to be pisolitic bauxite or iron hardpan exposed on the beach at Menemsha Hills Reservation in Chilmark, Massachusetts. The formation occurs as thin 10-20 cm wide lenses extending from 0.5 to 6 meters in length. They are found most commonly along a 200 to 250 meter section of the shore in the intertidal zone. The intact lenses trend northeast at about 25° to 35° and dip at 61° to 75°. The material occurs in a variety of forms. These include hematite and clay rich botyoidal (grape-like) surfaces, as iron hardpan cementing together gravel and pebble-sized stones, and as 1-2 cm wide pisolites (concentrically layered round structures). Prepared for the Trustees of Reservations
PB - Office of the Massachusetts State Geologist
CY - Amherst, MA
UR - http://www.geo.umass.edu/stategeologist/Products/reports/FinalReport.pdf
ER -