Inverse models to analyze the spatiotemporal variations of chemical weathering fluxes in a granito-gneissic watershed: Mule Hole, South India

Geoderma

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-24

  Soumya, B Siva ^a   Sekhar, M ^a   Riotte, J ^a,b,c,d   Audry, Stephane ^b,c,d   Lagane, Christelle ^b,c,d   Braun, Jean Jacques ^a,b,c,d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

Author keywords

Groundwater chemistry; Mass transfer coefficient (MTC); Mineralogy; Regolith; Silicate chemical weathering; Weathering fluxes

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL FLUX; ANNUAL RAINFALL; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHEDS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER CONCENTRATIONS; INVERSE MODELS; MASS BALANCE; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENT (MTC); MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; OUT OF EQUILIBRIUM; OUTPUT PHASE; PRECIPITATION CHEMISTRY; RED SOILS; REGOLITH; SEEPAGE FLOWS; SERICITE; SILICATE SYSTEM; SMECTITES; SOUTH INDIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER-ROCK REACTIONS; WEATHERING RATES;

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCHEMISTRY; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; LANDFORMS; MASS TRANSFER; MICA; MINERALOGY; QUARTZ; SILICATES; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; STATISTICS; WATERSHEDS;

WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GRANITE; MASS BALANCE; MASS TRANSFER; MINERAL; MINERAL DEPOSIT; MINERALOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECHARGE; REGOLITH; SAPROLITE; SEEPAGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED; WEATHERING; WELL;

INDIA;

EID: 80051697957     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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