Most Precambrian sediment-hosted barites have been interpreted to be diagenetic, hydrothermal exhalation, or methane-seepage in origin. Seafloor barite precipitates and void-filling barite cements in basal Ediacaran cap ...

Barite growth kinetics was investigated as a function of crystallographic orientation for temperatures between 10 and 70 °C and initial saturation indices (SI) of 1.1 and 2.1. The growth rates were estimated for the (001), ...