Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01229-5, Article published online 07 November 2017

The original version of this Article contained an error in the barite saturation state equation in the fourth paragraph of the Introduction and incorrectly read ‘Ωbarite=({134Ba2+}{\({\mathrm{SO}}_4^{2 - }\)})/Ksp)’. The correct version removes the superscript 134 next to ‘Ba2+’. This error has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.