Mineral weathering and elemental transport during hillslope evolution at the Susquehanna/Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 74, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3669-3691

  Jin, Lixin ^a   Ravella, Ramesh ^a   Ketchum, Blake ^a   Bierman, Paul R ^b   Heaney, Peter ^a   White, Timothy ^a   Brantley, Susan L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CHLORITE; EROSION RATE; FELDSPAR; HILLSLOPE; ILLITE; KAOLINITE; MINERAL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL PROFILE; TRANSPORT PROCESS; VERMICULITE; WATERSHED;

PENNSYLVANIA; SHALE HILLS; SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953120011     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.03.036     Document Type: Article

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