Recent results in our lab suggest a simple mechanism for the dissolution of common, congruently-soluble rock-forming minerals in saline fluids at deep crustal conditions.

The 1950 quartz solubility plot by George Kennedy that started it all...

Stay tuned for grad student Jon Hunt's results on high pressure quartz solubilty in pure water (it's huge). If you'd like to be a PTX grad student, contact us!