Physical and Chemical Weathering in Geochemical Cycles

Sommario

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Lerman (Editore), A Lerman (Editore), A. Lerman (Editore), MEYBECK (Editore), Meybeck (Editore), M. Meybeck (Editore)
• Editore: Springer Netherlands
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.10.2013
• EAN: 9789401078818
• ISBN: 978-94-0-107881-8
• Pagine: 376
• Illustrazioni: XVIII, 376 p.
• Serie: NATO Science Series C: (Closed; Nato Science Series C: Nato Science Series C:
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geologia