Numerous inselbergs rise above the regional erosional surface in semiarid northeastern Brazil. The are underlain by Quixadá Pluton and cut cm-thick granite dike swarms. Five with abundant dikes from two different parts of pluton were selected to investigate role patterns evolution residual topography, including morphological features hillslopes. methods included field mapping landforms, structu...

Earthen architecture, by its nature, is a fragile because it has poor resistance toward the action of weathering, which also increased in recent years through effects climate change. The presence interesting examples earthen brick buildings, for example, Piedmont Region Italy, characterised absence rendering, reveals need to test treatments protection and/or strengthening walls these buildings....

Sunlight is an important cause of damage to plastics, textiles, paints, and other organic materials. Short wavelength ultraviolet light has long been recognized as being responsible for most of this damage2. Spectroradiometric measurements were made to quantify the wide variations in UV content of sunlight under the following conditions: direct summer sunlight, winter sunlight, sunlight filtere...

The additive manufacturing (AM) methods, selective laser sintering (SLS) and multi jet fusion (MJF), are increasingly used for end-use polymer parts. Chemical reactions caused by ionizing radiation catalyzed oxygen, moisture, heat known to degrade the structure, result in visual defects, loss of mechanical properties. However, effects AM layer-wise process on degradation not widely studied. Yet...

Introduction: The term " space weathering " refers to the cumulative effects of several processes operating at the surface of any solar system body not protected by a thick atmosphere. These processes include cosmic and solar ray irradiation, solar wind im-plantation and sputtering, as well as micrometeorite bombardment [e.g. 1 and references therein]. In lunar soils the most voluminous weather...

[1] We developed a process-oriented hillslope soil mass balance model that integrates chemical and physical processes within hillslope soils. The model explicitly factors that soil chemical weathering at any hillslope position is related to the flux of soil eroded from upslope as well as soil production from underlying bedrock. The model was merged with measurements of soil elemental chemistry ...

[1] Mineral weathering and chemical denudation of terrestrial environments are understood by both geochemists and ecologists to be affected by rooted plant growth. We used unique 20-year ‘‘sandbox’’ experiments to test the predictions of both disciplines regarding the influence of tree growth and harvest on chemical weathering and denudation of Ca, Mg and K. Results showed 3 temporal phases: 1)...

Introduction: Orbiter and lander/rover studies of Mars' surface have identified and provided preliminary characterization of surficial materials including igne-ous and sedimentary rocks, possible volcaniclas-tic/pyroclastic rocks, and unconsolidated sediment. Some surfaces expose unaltered anhydrous silicates (militating against extensive interactions with water), but most results (including st...