Weathering of granite in Antarctica: II. Thermal stress at the grain scale

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 475-493

  Hall, Kevin ^a,d   Guglielmin, Mauro ^b   Strini, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Granite; Granular disintegration; Temperature monitoring; Thermal stresses; Weathering

Indexed keywords

DISINTEGRATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRANITE; MINERALOGY; POROSITY; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL STRESS;

GRANULAR DISINTEGRATION; TEMPERATURE MONITORING;

WEATHERING;

DISINTEGRATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRANITE; MINERALOGY; POROSITY; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL STRESS; WEATHERING;

GRAIN SIZE; GRANITE; POROSITY; SOLAR RADIATION; STRESS FIELD; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TENSILE STRESS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; WEATHERING;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 41549095476     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1617     Document Type: Article

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