Can stone decay be chaotic?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 390, Issue , 2005, Pages 11-16

  Viles, Heather A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioprotection; Bioweathering; Chaos; Chemical weathering; Complexity; Depletion; Feedback; Frost weathering; Hysteresis; Material properties; Nonlinearity; Salt weathering; Saturation; Self organization; Stone decay; Storage effects; Synergies; Systems; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DECAY (ORGANIC); EROSION; FEEDBACK; FROST EFFECTS; HYSTERESIS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

BIOPROTECTION; BIOWEATHERING; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COMPLEXITY; DEPLETION; NONLINEARITY; SALT WEATHERING; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; STONE DECAY; SYNERGIES; THRESHOLDS;

WEATHERING;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPLEXITY; DAMAGE; FROST; HYSTERESIS; SELF ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33847732350     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2390-6.11     Document Type: Article

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