Rate controls on the chemical weathering of natural polymineralic material. I. Dissolution behaviour of polymineralic assemblages determined using batch and unsaturated column experiments

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 352-376

  Evans, K A ^a,b   Banwart, S A ^a  

^a Department of Civil Engineering   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; RATE CONSTANTS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BATCH REACTORS; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; MUDSTONE; UNSATURATED COLUMN EXPERIMENTS;

WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DISSOLUTION;

EID: 32444441229     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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