Chemical weathering in a tropical watershed, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico III: Quartz dissolution rates

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 337-350

  Schulz, Marjorie S ^a   White, Art F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DISSOLUTION; QUARTZ; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WEATHERING;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0032846560     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00056-3     Document Type: Article

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