Surface-recession weathering of marble tombstones: New field data and constraints

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 390, Issue , 2005, Pages 27-37

  Roberts, Sheila M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN   (United States)

Author keywords

Base minus top method; Carbonate weathering; Cemetery; Dissolution; Marble tombstones; Nonlinear weathering; Standard error; Surface recession rate; Tombstone thickness; Weathering rates

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; MARBLE;

BASE-MINUS-TOP METHOD; CARBONATE WEATHERING; CEMETERY; STANDARD ERRORS; SURFACE RECESSION; TOMBSTONE THICKNESS; WEATHERING RATES;

WEATHERING;

CARBONATE; CEMETERY; DISSOLUTION; MARBLE; RESEARCH; WEATHERING;

EID: 67649315026     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2390-6.27     Document Type: Article

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