Uranium-thorium chronometry of weathering rinds: Rock alteration rate and paleo-isotopic record of weathering fluids

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 98-105

  Pelt, E ^a   Chabaux, F ^a   Innocent, C ^b   Navarre Sitchler, A K ^c   Sak, P B ^d   Brantley, S L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b BRGM   (France)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

basalt weathering; isotopic record; U series chronometry; weathering rates; weathering rind

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RATIOS; ALLUVIAL TERRACES; BASALT WEATHERING; BASALT WEATHERINGS; EXTERNAL INPUTS; FORMATION RATES; FRACTIONATION PROCESSES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; ISOTOPIC RECORD; ISOTOPIC RECORDS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; ROCK ALTERATIONS; SOIL SOLUTIONS; SR ISOTOPE RATIOS; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; TIME VARIATIONS; TRANSITION ZONES; U-SERIES CHRONOMETRY; VARIATIONS OF; WEATHERING RATES;

ACTINIDES; BASALT; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; EROSION; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; STRONTIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

WEATHERING;

BASALT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IMMOBILIZATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; THORIUM ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM ISOTOPE; WEATHERING RATE;

EID: 55549084505     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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