Origins of honeycomb weathering: The role of salts and wind

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1250-1255

  Rodriguez Navarro, Carlos ^a,b   Doehne, Eric ^a   Sebastian, Eduardo ^b  

^a GETTY CONSERVATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BUILDING MATERIALS; DISINTEGRATION; EVAPORATION; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; LIME; SALTS; WIND;

AIR PRESSURES; BUILDING STONE; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; HIGH EVAPORATION RATE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SALINE SOLUTIONS; SALT CRYSTALLIZATION;

WEATHERING;

CRYSTALLIZATION; SALT; WEATHERING; WIND;

EID: 0033410244     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1250:OOHWTR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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