Physical and Chemical Weathering in Geochemical Cycles [Hardcover]

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Aussois, France, September 4-15, 1985Weathering 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.