Posted: May 22, 2006 1:53 pm
I was probably drunk but just hadn't fallen down yet.
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I think we're talking saturation of calcium carbonate, not of carbon dioxide. Water containing different amounts of C02 can contain different amounts of calcium carbonate. The more CO2, the more rock dissolves before the water becomes saturated with calcium carbonate.
Heck, you could say conduit karst has the poorest hydraulic circulation of all. After all, that water moves fast and usually is just plain gone somewhere else.
Amemeba wrote:Right Dwight, but there's more occult chemistry in the occassion of CO2 charged waters mixing. ( See Teresa's mathamatical calculations in her story about the cheap drunken sluts leaving the dance with random whoremongers.)