Physical and Chemical Weathering in Geochemical Cycles

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Weathering Rates and Major Transport Processes an Introduction....Pages 1-10
Rate Control of Weathering of Silicate Minerals at Room Temperature and Pressure....Pages 11-32
Microbial Weathering Processes in Natural Environments....Pages 33-59
Paleosols and the Evolution of the Atmosphere: Part I....Pages 61-82
Slope Erosion and Mass Movement in Relation to Weathering in Geochemical Cycles....Pages 83-111
Loess—Its Formation, Transport and Economic Significance....Pages 113-142
Lake Sediments as Indicators of Changes in Land Erosion Rates....Pages 143-164
Movement and Storage of Sediment in River Systems....Pages 165-179
Influence of Acid Rain on Weathering Rates....Pages 181-196
Freshwater Carbon and the Weathering Cycle....Pages 197-223
Weathering and Erosion in the Humid Tropics....Pages 225-246
How to Establish and Use World Budgets of Riverine Materials....Pages 247-272
Transport and Deposition of Suspended Matter in Estuaries and the Nearshore Sea....Pages 273-298
Riverborne Materials and the Continent-Ocean Interface....Pages 299-321
Strontium Storage and Release During Deposition and Diagenesis of Marine Carbonates Related to Sea-Level Variations....Pages 323-339
Sediment Cycling During Earth History....Pages 341-355
Solid Earth as a Recycling System: Temporal Dimensions of Global Tectonics....Pages 357-372
Back Matter....Pages 373-375