Weathering of gneiss in Calabria, southern Italy

Catena

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-15

  Le Pera, Emilia ^a   Critelli, Salvatore ^a   Sorriso Valvo, Marino ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gneiss; Micromorphology; Mineral transformation; Saprolite; Weathering

Indexed keywords

GNEISS; MINERALOGY; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; WEATHERING;

CALABRIA; ITALY; SILA MASSIF;

EID: 0033746613     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(00)00117-X     Document Type: Article

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