Effect of rock hardness and moisture content on tafoni weathering in the granite of Mount Doeg-Sung, Korea

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-67

  Matsukura, Yukinori ^a   Tanaka, Yukiya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVERN; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; GRANITE; HARDNESS; MOISTURE CONTENT;

KOREA;

EID: 0034127930     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.2000.00112.x     Document Type: Article

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