Chemical weathering of volcanic rocks at the island of Pantelleria, Italy: Information from soil profile and soil solution investigations

Chemical Geology

Volumn 246, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-18

  Di Figlia, Maria Grazia ^a   Bellanca, Adriana ^a   Neri, Rodolfo ^a   Stefansson, Andri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Pantelleria; Soil solutions; Solute mobility; Volcanic soils; Water rock interaction

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; PARENT BODY; SOIL PROFILE; TRACE ELEMENT; TRACHYTE; VOLCANIC SOIL; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PANTELLERIA; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRAPANI;

EID: 35548982588     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.07.025     Document Type: Article

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