Investigating the complex interface where bedrock transforms to regolith

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Brantley, S L ^a   Buss, H ^b   Lebedeva, M ^a   Fletcher, R C ^a   Ma, L ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; ADVANCE RATES; BULK DENSITY; COMPLEX INTERFACE; EQUILIBRIUM SOLUBILITIES; FLUID FLOW; LATERAL FLOW; LONGITUDINAL PROFILE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PENNSYLVANIA; PUERTO RICO; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; REACTION FRONT; REACTION ZONES; SCALE OF OBSERVATION; TEMPORAL SCALE; WATERSHED STREAMS;

LANDFORMS; REACTION RATES; SOIL MECHANICS; WATERSHEDS; WEATHERING;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BEDROCK; BULK DENSITY; EROSION RATE; FLUID FLOW; FRAGMENTATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; REGOLITH; STREAM; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATERSHED; WEATHERING;

PENNSYLVANIA; PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955948891     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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