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INFILLED BLUE HOLES ON THE BAHAMA BANKS AS POTENTIAL POINT SOURCES FOR WHITING ORIGIN [Link]
โOcean blue holes are tidally active features, with strong inflow and outflow currents. At depth, they are commonly linked to lateral conduits of fracture guided passages. We hypothesize that sediment- filled blue holes should also be connected to lateral conduits and be tidally active, such that water would be brought up by diffuse flow from deep within the banks. During subaerial exposure, island carbonates develop greater horizontal hydraulic conductivity (Kh) over time, however vertical hydraulic conductivity (Kv) decreases, so blue holes would act as preferential flow paths for water given their higher vertical permeability relative to the carbonate host rock. Deep water is cooler, and because of depth pressure, should contain additional CO2 compared to bank surface water. Once this deep-seated water rises to the bank top, it would degas and warm, therefore driving precipitation of CaCO3.We hypothesize that this process might be the driving force in the formation of whitings. Whitings have been studied extensively over the past 60 years, and no satisfactory model has yet been established. Using three existing blue hole databases from Bahamian island and coastal locations, an extrapolation was done to estimate the number of sediment-filled blue holes on the shallow Bahama banks. Great and Little Bahama Bank should have 2250 infilled blue holes, with an average density of 0.05/km2 on these shallow banks. This number is a minimum estimate, as not all blue holes can be assumed to be in the database. The description of whitings as being point source in origin, the hydraulic and water chemistry constraints, and the blue hole number extrapolations implicate infilled blue holes as the potential cause of whitings.โ