Probing deep weathering in the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, Pennsylvania (USA): The hypothesis of nested chemical reaction fronts in the subsurface

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1280-1298

  Brantley, Susan L ^a   Holleran, Molly E ^a   Jin, Lixin ^a,b   Bazilevskaya, Ekaterina ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Carbonates; Clays; Pyrite; Shale; Weathering

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE CONCENTRATIONS; CHEMICAL HETEROGENEITIES; CRITICAL ZONES; DEPTH VARIATION; MINERAL DISTRIBUTION; OXIDATIVE DISSOLUTION; PYRITE CONCENTRATION; REACTION FRONT;

BOREHOLES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATES; CARBONATION; CLAY; GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; OBSERVATORIES; PYRITES; REDOX REACTIONS; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

WEATHERING;

CARBONATE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CLAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); POREWATER; POROSITY; PYRITE; REDOX CONDITIONS; SHALE; WEATHERING;

PENNSYLVANIA; SHALE HILLS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883453882     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3415     Document Type: Article

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