Limestone weathering rates accelerated by micron-scale grain detachment

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 751-754

  Emmanuel, Simon ^a   Levenson, Yael ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBONATES; DISSOLUTION; EROSION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL DISSOLUTION; ELEVATED REACTIONS; FINE-GRAINED CARBONATES; HIGH DEGREE OF VARIABILITY; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; MECHANICAL EROSION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; WEATHERING RATES;

LIMESTONE;

CARBONATE ROCK; DISSOLUTION; EROSION RATE; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LIMESTONE; MICRITE; REACTION RATE; WEATHERING RATE;

ISRAEL; JERUSALEM [ISRAEL];

EID: 84906688890     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G35815.1     Document Type: Article

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