Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Aussois, France, September 4-15, 1985
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Weathering Rates and Major Transport Processes An Introduction. - Rate Control of Weathering of Silicate Minerals at Room Temperature and Pressure. - Microbial Weathering Processes in Natural Environments. - Paleosols and the Evolution of the Atmosphere: Part I. - Slope Erosion and Mass Movement in Relation to Weathering and Geochemical Cycles. - Loess Its Formation, Transport and Economic Significance. - Lake Sediments as Indicators of Changes in Land Erosion Rates. - Movement and Storage of Sediment in River Systems. - Influence of Acid Rain on Weathering Rates. - Freshwater Carbon and the Weathering Cycle. - Weathering and Erosion in the Humid Tropics. - How to Establish and use World Budgets of Riverine Materials. - Transport and Deposition of Suspended Matter in Estuaries and the Nearshore Sea. - Riverborne Materials and the Continent-Ocean Interface. - Strontium Storage and Release During Deposition and Diagenesis of Marine Carbonates Related to Sea-Level Variations. - Sediment Cycling During Earth History. - Solid Earth as a Recycling System: Temporal Dimensions of Global Tectonics.
