Controls on intense silicate weathering in a tropical river, southwestern India

Chemical Geology

Volumn 300-301, Issue , 2012, Pages 61-69

  Gurumurthy, G P ^a   Balakrishna, K ^a   Riotte, Jean ^b,c   Braun, Jean Jacques ^b,c   Audry, Stéphane ^c   Shankar, Udaya H N ^a   Manjunatha, B R ^d  

^a MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

CO 2 consumption; Granitic gneissic terrain; Nethravati River; Silicate weathering; Tropical

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; BASALT WEATHERING; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONSUMPTION RATES; GRANITIC-GNEISSIC TERRAIN; MAJOR ION CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR RATIOS; PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT; RIVER BASINS; SILICATE WEATHERING; TROPICAL; TROPICAL RIVERS; WATER SAMPLES; WEATHERING INDICES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; KAOLINITE; LANDFORMS; RHENIUM; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SILICA; SILICATES; TROPICS; WATERSHEDS;

WEATHERING;

BASALT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHARNOCKITE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; GNEISS; GRANITE; METASEDIMENT; PRECAMBRIAN; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SILICATE; TERRAIN;

INDIA; KARNATAKA; NETRAVATHI RIVER;

EID: 84856778333     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.01.016     Document Type: Article

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