The Permian Capitan Reef pisolite of New Mexico locally contains pore-fillings of square-ended rays 2-3 mm long, which we interpret as having originally formed as aragonite crystals. This indicates that the vadose soil waters that formed the rays had a Mg/Ca ratio greater than 2.

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