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Weathering in the Coastal Zone

verfasst von : Rhodes W. Fairbridge

Erschienen in: Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

Verlag: Springer Netherlands

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Weathering, anywhere on the earth’s surface, is a destructive process whereby preexisting rocks, boulders, pebbles, or smaller particles are altered in composition, texture, color, and/or hardness with little or no transport from their original in situ positions, except as mediated by chemical solutions. In soil science, it is the initial step in a long and complex process (Merrill, 1897/1921; Carroll, 1962; Barshad, 1972; Yatsu, 1988; Birkeland, 1999). As a process in physics, this rock decay follows the Second Law of Thermodynamics, as positive entropy, in which systematic ordering of chemical elements is progressively broken down. In a mineral petrological sense, the Bowen reaction series is reversed (Colman and Dethier, 1986). …

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Metadaten
Titel
Weathering in the Coastal Zone
verfasst von
Rhodes W. Fairbridge
Copyright-Jahr
2005
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3880-1_351