Rates and time scales of clay-mineral formation by weathering in saprolitic regoliths of the southern Appalachians from geochemical mass balance

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 783-794

  Price, Jason R ^a,b   Velbel, Michael A ^a   Patino, Lina C ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachians; Clays; Mass balance; Rates; Regolith

Indexed keywords

CLAY-MINERAL FORMATION; MASS BALANCE EQUATIONS; REGOLITHS; SOLUTE FLUXES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLUXES; HYDROLOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; WATERSHEDS; WEATHERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CLAY;

CLAY MINERAL; GEOCHEMISTRY; MASS BALANCE; REGOLITH; WEATHERING;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 18944382547     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25547.1     Document Type: Review

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