Weathering rates of sandstone in a semi-arid environment (Hunter Valley, Australia)

Environmental Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1047-1057

  Wells, Tony ^a   Hancock, Greg ^b   Fryer, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gravestones; Laboratory simulations; Sandstone; Weathering

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; THAWING; WEATHERING;

GRAVESTONE; LABORATORY SIMULATIONS;

SANDSTONE;

FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; LABORATORY METHOD; SANDSTONE; SEMIARID REGION; WEATHERING RATE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; HUNTER VALLEY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 42449087725     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0871-y     Document Type: Article

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