Physical and Chemical Weathering in Geochemical Cycles

List of contents

Weathering Rates and Major Transport Processes An Introduction.- Rate Control of Weathering of Silicate Minerals at Room Temperature and Pressure.- Microbial Weathering Processes in Natural Environments.- Paleosols and the Evolution of the Atmosphere: Part I.- Slope Erosion and Mass Movement in Relation to Weathering and Geochemical Cycles.- Loess Its Formation, Transport and Economic Significance.- Lake Sediments as Indicators of Changes in Land Erosion Rates.- Movement and Storage of Sediment in River Systems.- Influence of Acid Rain on Weathering Rates.- Freshwater Carbon and the Weathering Cycle.- Weathering and Erosion in the Humid Tropics.- How to Establish and use World Budgets of Riverine Materials.- Transport and Deposition of Suspended Matter in Estuaries and the Nearshore Sea.- Riverborne Materials and the Continent-Ocean Interface.- Strontium Storage and Release During Deposition and Diagenesis of Marine Carbonates Related to Sea-Level Variations.- Sediment Cycling During Earth History.- Solid Earth as a Recycling System: Temporal Dimensions of Global Tectonics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Lerman (Editor), A Lerman (Editor), A. Lerman (Editor), MEYBECK (Editor), Meybeck (Editor), M. Meybeck (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9789027728210
• ISBN: 978-90-277-2821-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Weight: 735 g
• Illustrations: XVIII, 376 p.
• Series: Nato Science Series C: NATO Science Series C 177716; Nato Science Series C:
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology