Tafoni in the El Chorro area, Andalucia, southern Spain

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 817-833

  Mellor, A ^a   Short, J ^a   Kirkby, S J ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flysch; Micromorphology; Tafoni; Weathering

Indexed keywords

FLYSCH; MICROMOPHOLOGY; TAFONI; WEATHERING;

SPAIN, ANDALUCIA, EL CHORRO;

EID: 0031417065     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199709)22:9<817::AID-ESP768>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Adams, A. E. Mackenzie, W. S. and Guilford, C. 1984. Atlas of Sedimentary Rocks under the Microscope, Longman, Harlow.
2. Agencia de Medio Ambiente. 1989. Informe 88: Medio Ambiente en Andalucia, Junta de Andalucia, Seville.
3. Bradley, W. C., Hutton, J. T. and Twidale, C. R. 1978. 'Role of salts in development of granitic tafoni. South Australia', Journal of Geology, 86, 647-654.
4. Calkin, P. E. and Cailleux, A. 1962. 'A quantitative study of cavernous weathering (taffonis) and its implications to glacial chronology in the Victoria valley, Antarctica', Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 6, 317-324.
5. Campbell, I. A. 1991. 'Classification of rock weathering at Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada: a study in applied geomorphology', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 16, 701-711.
6. Cooke, R. U., Warren, A. and Goudie, A. S. 1993. Desert Geomorphology, UCL Press, London.
7. Gomez-Moreno, M. L. 1989. La Montana Malaguena: Estudio ambiental y evolucion de su paisaje. Diputacion Provincial de Malaga.
8. Haynes, R. J. and Williams, P. H. 1992. 'Changes in soil solution composition and pH in urine-affected areas of pasture', Journal of Soil Science, 43, 323-334.
9. ITGE. 1990. Mapa y memoria de Espana, Ardales (escala 1:50000), Instituto Technologico GeoMinero de Espana, Madrid.
10. Jennings, J. N. 1968. 'Tafoni', in Fairbridge, R. W. (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, Reinhold Book Co., New York, 1295.
11. Martini, I. P. 1978. 'Tafoni weathering, with examples from Tuscany, Italy', Zeitschrift für geomorphologie, 22, 44-67.
12. McCarroll, D. 1991. 'The Schmidt hammer, weathering and rock surface roughness', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 16, 477-480.
13. Mellor, A. 1986. 'A micromorphological examination of two alpine soil chronosequences, southern Norway', Geoderma, 39, 41-57.
14. Mottershead, D. N. and Pye, K. 1994. 'Tafoni on coastal slopes, south Devon, UK', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 19, 543-563.
15. Mustoe, G. E. 1983. 'Cavernous weathering in the Capitol Reef Desert, Utah', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 8, 517-526.
16. Ollier, C. D. 1978. 'Inselbergs of the Namib Desert: processes and history, Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Suppl. Bd. 31, 161-176.
17. Sancho, C. and Benito, G. 1990. 'Factors controlling tafoni weathering in the Ebro Basin, NE Spain', Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 34, 165-177.
18. Smith, B. J. 1978. 'The origin and geomorphic implications of cliff-foot recesses and tafoni on limestone hamadas in the northwest Sahara', Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 22, 21-43.
19. Young, A. R. M. 1987. 'Salt as an agent in the development of cavernous weathering', Geology, 15, 962-966.