The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of natural weathering in ground contact on biological resistance, modulus of rupture, and color stability of heat-treated alder wood. Chemical composition of weathered wood was also studied by FTIR-ATR spectra. Wood stakes were heated at 150, 180, and 200°C for periods of 2, 6, and 10 hours, and the stakes were subsequently exposed to na...

Drift compositional studies were initiated at the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in the mid-1960's in projects that drew heavily on the technology and approaches developed in Fennoscandia over the previous century. As this research progressed and expanded in the 1970's, its Fennoscandian character diminished and, like the geochemical exploration research program that it closely paralleled, d...

At the largest time and space scales, the pace of erosion and chemical weathering is determined by tectonic uplift rates. Deviations from equilibrium arise from the transient response of landscape denudation to climatic and tectonic perturbations. We posit that the constraint of mass balance, however, makes it unlikely that such disequilibrium persists at the global scale over millions of years...

Much of the literature that analyzes the effect of various factors on basaltic weathering rates does not assess the synergistic effects of several factors at once. Those studies that do address such synergies generally report their results in formats that are difficult to integrate into geographic analysis. The research outlined in this paper employs multivariate statistics to assess the effect...

The isotope ratios of Sr are useful tracers for studying parent material sources, weathering processes, and biogeochemical cycling. Mineralogical and geochemical investigations of two lateritic weathering covers, in an area close to the Tropic of Cancer (Guangxi Province, southern China), were undertaken to study the regional weathering processes and Sr isotopic sources. We found that weatherin...

The toxicity of oils can be understood using the concept of toxic potential, or the toxicity of each individual component of the oil at the water solubility of that component. Using the target lipid model to describe the toxicity and the observed relationship of the solubility of oil components to log (Kow), it is demonstrated that components with lower log (Kow) have greater toxic potential th...

UV radiation is one of the key factors ageing materials and thus limiting their service life time. Damages induced by UV radiation may be observed as changes in the properties of the material. Various types of weathering experiments are used to study the chemical and physical mechanisms behind the degradation process. Material samples are exposed to UV radiation and other environmental stress a...

The main aim of this study was to examine the influence of exposure and consequently climate, on the chemical weathering of soils which had developed after the ice retreat of the last glaciation in Northern Italy. This was done by comparing soils developing at northand south-facing sites on siliceous parent material. There is very little data available on weathering rates and organic matter (OM...

Present study aims to unravel the hydro geochemical interaction of sediment and water of Saheb bandh lake, West Bengal, India with an emphasis on heavy metal assessment. Lake water belongs to Ca2+–HCO3− type hydro geochemical faces and water-rock interaction primarily controls the lake water chemistry. Based on different Hydro chemical characteristics it is suggested that silicate weathering is...