Long-term average mineral weathering rates from watershed geochemical mass balance methods: Using mineral modal abundances to solve more equations in more unknowns

Chemical Geology

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 36-51

  Price, Jason R ^a   Heitmann, Noel ^a   Hull, Jennifer ^a   Szymanski, David ^b  

^a MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering; Mass balance; Rates; Trace elements; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CALCIUM; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; MASS BALANCE; MINERAL; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; STOICHIOMETRY; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED; WEATHERING RATE;

NORTH AMERICA; PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48449101375     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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