Rates of Weathering Layer Development: A Review of Studies on Weathering Rind, Weathering Crust, and Rock Varnish

In situ weathering rind erosion

The use of cosmogenic nuclide dating methods place in doubt the long-term future of weathering rinds (WRs) as a chronometric tool. Why estimate ages when radiometric control is possible? This paper presents evidence that WRs can provide invaluable clues about what particular sample would provide the most accurate cosmogenic age by avoiding binheritanceQ of cosmogenic nuclides and by avoiding bo...

Effects of Weathering on Tir Spectra and Rock Classification

1376. [14] Michalski, J. R. et al. (2005), LPSC XXXVI, Abstract #1188. [15] Hamilton and Lucey (2005), LPSC XXXVI, Abstract #1272. [16] Christensen et al. (2000), JGR, 105, 9735-9739. [17] Reyes, D. P. (1994), M.S. Thesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Figure 2: Variation of components between the weathered and cut surfaces of the granitic samples. Plagioclase feldspar and quartz values ...

Weathering and Development of Chemically Mature Soils

Microbial populations and activities in the rhizoplane of rock-weathering desert plants. I. Root colonization and weathering of igneous rocks.

Dense layers of bacteria and fungi in the rhizoplane of three species of cactus (Pachycereus pringlei, Stenocereus thurberi, Opuntia cholla) and a wild fig tree (Ficus palmeri) growing in rocks devoid of soil were revealed by bright-field and fluorescence microscopy and field emission scanning electron microscopy. These desert plants are responsible for rock weathering in an ancient lava flow a...

Weathering of Chondritic Meteorites

Meteorites are frequently not the pristine record of early solar system processes that we would like them to be. Many unique meteorites, samples that can further our understanding of the environment of the early solar system, are finds, so a knowledge of terrestrial weathering becomes a requirement to accurately interpret their preterrestrial history. This chapter outlines the weathering proces...