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DOI | 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.10.018 |
Trends in grain size and BET surface area in cold-arid versus warm-semiarid fluvial systems | |
Marra, Kristen R.1; Soreghan, Gerilyn S.1; Madden, Megan E. Elwood1; Keiser, Leslie J.1; Hall, Brenda L.2 | |
通讯作者 | Marra, Kristen R. |
来源期刊 | GEOMORPHOLOGY
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ISSN | 0169-555X |
EISSN | 1872-695X |
出版年 | 2014 |
卷号 | 206页码:483-491 |
英文摘要 | Sediment grain size and surface area impose critical controls on the rates of chemical weathering, even in cold-based (i.e., polar) glacial systems, where extensive chemical weathering traditionally has been considered minimal owing to low temperatures. Production of fine-grained material increases the surface area of sediments, priming mineral surfaces for chemical weathering. Comparison among grain size and reactive surface area of sediments along granitoid-sourced fluvial transects between a cold-arid, glacial (Wright Valley, Antarctica) and a warm-semiarid, nonglacial (Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma) environment indicates opposing trends downstream within the silt and clay (<63 mu m) fraction. In the polar glacial transect, the silt and clay fraction coarsens and exhibits a corresponding decrease in mineral surface area with fluvial transport. This is inferred to reflect rapid dissolution of fine-grained eolian material trapped on a glacier surface and released during summer melting. Fluvial sediments from the warm, nonglacial system exhibit the opposite trend, wherein a downstream decrease in grain size and increase in surface area suggest incongruent chemical weathering resulting in clay-sized secondary weathering phases. The observed trends highlight the important roles of reactive surface area and solute chemistry, which are closely linked to climate, in determining chemical weathering rates. Such trends are potentially discernible in the sediment record, providing a means to refine climatic inferences from proximal fluvial strata and further constrain the influence of chemical weathering on modern and on ancient global carbon cycles. Published by Elsevier B.V. |
英文关键词 | Eolian Clark Glacier Polar desert Chemical weathering Clays Antarctica |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000332054400038 |
WOS关键词 | MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS ; SOUTHERN VICTORIA LAND ; TAYLOR VALLEY ; MELTWATER STREAM ; ANTARCTICA ; GLACIERS ; CHEMISTRY ; CLIMATE ; RATES ; SEDIMENT |
WOS类目 | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology |
来源机构 | United States Geological Survey |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/182281 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Oklahoma, Sch Geol & Geophys, Norman, OK 73072 USA; 2.Univ Maine, Climate Change Inst, Orono, ME 04469 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marra, Kristen R.,Soreghan, Gerilyn S.,Madden, Megan E. Elwood,et al. Trends in grain size and BET surface area in cold-arid versus warm-semiarid fluvial systems[J]. United States Geological Survey,2014,206:483-491. |
APA | Marra, Kristen R.,Soreghan, Gerilyn S.,Madden, Megan E. Elwood,Keiser, Leslie J.,&Hall, Brenda L..(2014).Trends in grain size and BET surface area in cold-arid versus warm-semiarid fluvial systems.GEOMORPHOLOGY,206,483-491. |
MLA | Marra, Kristen R.,et al."Trends in grain size and BET surface area in cold-arid versus warm-semiarid fluvial systems".GEOMORPHOLOGY 206(2014):483-491. |
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