Quantitative paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction using paleosols

ND Sheldon, NJ Tabor - Earth-science reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Paleosols (fossil soils) are preserved throughout the geologic record in depositional settings
ranging from alluvial systems to between basalt flows. Until recently, paleosols were studied …

U-Th-Ra fractionation during weathering and river transport

F Chabaux, J Riotte… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The potential of radioactive disequilibria as tracers and chronometers of weathering
processes has been recognised since the 1960's (eg, Rosholt et al. 1966; Hansen and Stout …

Classification of altered volcanic island arc rocks using immobile trace elements: development of the Th–Co discrimination diagram

AR Hastie, AC Kerr, JA Pearce… - Journal of petrology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Many diagrams conventionally used to classify igneous rocks utilize mobile elements, which
commonly renders them unreliable for classifying rocks from the geological record. The K2O …

[图书][B] Nutrient cycling and limitation: Hawai'i as a model system

PM Vitousek - 2004 - books.google.com
The availability or lack of nutrients shapes ecosystems in fundamental ways. From forest
productivity to soil fertility, from the diversity of animals to the composition of microbial …

Lithium-isotope fractionation during continental weathering processes

JS Pistiner, GM Henderson - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2003 - Elsevier
A comprehensive understanding of lithium-isotope fractionation during terrestrial weathering
is necessary in order to use lithium isotopes to trace chemical cycles, climatic changes and …

Understanding ecosystem retrogression

DA Peltzer, DA Wardle, VJ Allison… - Ecological …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Over time scales of thousands to millions of years, and in the absence of rejuvenating
disturbances that initiate primary or early secondary succession, ecosystem properties such …

The impact of climate on the biogeochemical functioning of volcanic soils

OA Chadwick, RT Gavenda, EF Kelly, K Ziegler… - Chemical …, 2003 - Elsevier
Rainfall and the amount of water available to leach ions from soil are among the most
important features determining mineral weathering, secondary mineral synthesis and soil …

Rapid soil production and weathering in the Southern Alps, New Zealand

IJ Larsen, PC Almond, A Eger, JO Stone… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Evaluating conflicting theories about the influence of mountains on carbon dioxide cycling
and climate requires understanding weathering fluxes from tectonically uplifting landscapes …

Mobilization and re-distribution of major and trace elements during extreme weathering of basalt in Hainan Island, South China

JL Ma, GJ Wei, YG Xu, WG Long, WD Sun - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2007 - Elsevier
Major, trace and organic elements of a laterite profile developed on Neogene basalts in
northern Hainan Island, South China were reported in this paper, the aim of which was to …

Geochemical evidence for the provenance of middle Pleistocene loess deposits in southern China

Q Hao, Z Guo, Y Qiao, B Xu, F Oldfield - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
The provenance of middle Pleistocene loess in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze
River, the most intensively investigated loess deposits outside the Loess Plateau region in …