The effects of climate and landscape position on chemical denudation and mineral transformation in the Santa Catalina mountain critical zone observatory

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Lybrand, Rebecca ^a   Rasmussen, Craig ^a   Jardine, Angie ^a   Troch, Peter ^a   Chorover, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; BULK SOILS; CHEMICAL DENUDATION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLAY MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES; DESERT SCRUBS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EROSION RATES; FUTURE CLIMATE; HALLOYSITE; HIGH ELEVATION; INTERACTIVE CONTROL; LANDSCAPE POSITIONS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; MINERAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS; PARENT MATERIALS; PEDOGENIC PROCESS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SEMI-ARID ECOSYSTEMS; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE; SEMIARID LANDSCAPE; SMECTITES; VEGETATION COMMUNITY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

BUILDINGS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CONTROL; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; FORESTRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; LANDFORMS; OBSERVATORIES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SILICATE MINERALS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; USER INTERFACES; WEATHERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENUDATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EROSION RATE; GRANITE; HALLOYSITE; KAOLINITE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; OBSERVATORY; PARENT MATERIAL; PEDOGENESIS; PLAGIOCLASE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PRIMARY PRODUCTION; QUARTZ; REGOLITH; SEMIARID REGION; SMECTITE; SOIL EROSION; TRANSFORMATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

BUILDINGS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATES; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; FORESTRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; KAOLIN; MINERALS; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICATES; SOIL MECHANICS; WEATHERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARIZONA; SANTA CATALINA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 79955946295     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.03.036     Document Type: Article

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