This study experimentally investigates the isotopic behaviors of Li and K during dissolution silicate rocks (i.e., basalt granite). Proton-driven (in 0.8 M HNO3) ligand-driven 5 mM critic acid or oxalic acid) experiments were performed in batch-closed systems over 15 days. We provide a time-series interpretation isotope fractionation ultra-acidic (unidirectional) near-natural (biologically affe...

Calcretes are the calcite crusts widely developed at the Earth's surface in semi-arid regions (e.g., Goudie, 1983; Nahon, 1991; Wright and Tucker, 1991 ). Thickness of calcretes is tens of centimeters to a few meters, and increases downslope. Calcretes pseudomorphically replace all underlying silicate rocks. Parent rock structure and bulk volume are preserved. In the lower part of calcrete prof...

Article history: Received 28 June 2015 Received in revised form 4 January 2016 Accepted 8 January 2016 Available online 12 January 2016 Chromium (Cr) isotopes are an emerging proxy for redox processes at Earth's surface. However, many geological reservoirs and isotope fractionation processes are still not well understood. The purpose of this contribution is to move forward our understanding of ...

Synthetic vitreous fibers are inorganic fibrous materials, manufactured principally from glass, rock, minerals, slag, and processed inorganic oxides. Synthetic vitreous fibers are manufactured by several processes, all of which involve cooling of a stream of high-temperature, molten inorganic oxides. Commercially important synthetic vitreous fibers are primarily silica-based, but contain variou...

[1] Deep aquifers are potential long-term storage sites for anthropogenic CO2 emissions. The retention time and environmental safety of the injected CO2 depend on geologic and physical factors and on the chemical reactions between the CO2, the aquifer water, and the host rocks. The pH buffer capacity of the aquifer water and the acid neutralization potential of the host rocks are important fact...

Earthquakes are the result of slip along faults and are due to the decrease of rock frictional strength (dynamic weakening) with increasing slip and slip rate. Friction experiments simulating the abrupt accelerations (>>10 m/s2), slip rates (~1 m/s), and normal stresses (>>10 MPa) expected at the passage of the earthquake rupture along the front of fault patches, measured large fault dynamic we...