Weathering of quartz as an Archean climatic indicator

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 594-602

  Sleep, Norman H ^a   Hessler, Angela M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chert; Climate; Conglomerate; Dissolution; Karst; Kinetics; Precambrian; Quartz sand

Indexed keywords

CHERT; CLIMATIC INDICATOR; CONGLOMERATES; PRECAMBRIAN; QUARTZITE KARST;

AGGLOMERATION; DISSOLUTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRANITE; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SANDSTONE; SOLUBILITY; WEATHERING;

QUARTZ;

ARCHEAN; PALEOCLIMATE; QUARTZ; WEATHERING;

EID: 30744477074     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.020     Document Type: Article

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