Effects of temperature on silicate weathering: Solute fluxes and chemical weathering in a temperate rain forest watershed, Jamieson Creek, British Columbia

Chemical Geology

Volumn 269, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 62-78

  Turner, Benjamin F ^a,c   White, Art F ^b   Brantley, Susan L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering; Diorite; Glacial till; Silicates; Solute mass balance; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ARRHENIUS EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC CO; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; COOL CLIMATES; DIORITE; DISSOLUTION RATES; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; GLACIAL TILL; GLOBAL CLIMATES; MINERAL SURFACES; PORE WATERS; PUERTO RICO; RAIN FORESTS; SILICATE WEATHERING; SOLUTE FLUX; SOLUTE MASS BALANCE; STREAM DISCHARGE; TROPICAL SYSTEMS; WATERSHED SCALE; WEATHERING RATES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FELDSPAR; FORESTRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEACHING; QUARTZ; RAIN; SILICATES; WATER; WATERSHEDS;

WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIORITE; DISSOLUTION; HORNBLENDE; MASS BALANCE; PLAGIOCLASE; POREWATER; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; REGOLITH; SILICATE MINERAL; TEMPERATE FOREST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TILL; WATERSHED;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; LEACHING; MATERIALS BALANCE; QUARTZ; RAIN; SILICATES; SOLUTES; WATER SHEDS; WEATHERING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 78650539395     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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