Learning to read the chemistry of regolith to understand the critical zone

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue , 2011, Pages 387-416

  Brantley, Susan L ^a   Lebedeva, Marina ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

denudation; erosion; soils; weathering

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INPUTS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; DENUDATION; EARTH MATERIALS; EARTH'S SURFACE; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; LONG TERM RECORDS; MINERAL DISSOLUTION; NATURAL PERTURBATIONS; QUANTITATIVE MODELS;

DISSOLUTION; EROSION; SOILS; WEATHERING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENUDATION; DISSOLUTION; EARTH STRUCTURE; MINERAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGOLITH; SOIL EROSION; WEATHERING;

EID: 79955497423     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152321     Document Type: Article

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