Weathering Interactions

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The formation of sediments through weathering interacts with biogeochemical cycles by chemical weathering. We can distinguish between three types of chemical transformation of rocks by reaction with water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide ... 

Boron is widely and rather uniformly distributed in rocks and sediments. One mineral is tourmaline ((Mg,Fe,Ca,Na,JLi,K)4-8B2Al3Si402o(OH)2), but more commonly B is a minor impurity in other minerals. In soils B is diffuse and is not in identifiable B minerals. Marine sediments were once thought to be characteristically higher in boron than terrestrial sediments, but this view is no longer so widely accepted. Boron released to solution by weathering interacts primarily with Fe and A1 hydroxyoxides, with maximum adsorption at pH 7 to 9. Aluminosilicates adsorb B only weakly. 

Vineyard site is important to wine quaUty and character and interacts with variety. The general climate must not be too cold, too hot, or too humid. A mild, dry climate that still induces a dormant season, like the Mediterranean area and California, is desirable. A relatively constant weather pattern year-to-year is also sought. The nearer to the limits of cold tolerance, for example, that the climate comes, the more likely are disastrous vintages. The modifying influence of close bodies of water, sun-facing slopes, or frost-resisting air drainage can make one vineyard more desirable than another nearby. 

An important property of a pigment is its ability to maintain its color when exposed to light, weather, heat, and chemicals. This property is seldom measured for pigments alone. Rather it is determined for the dispersion of a pigment in a desired medium, eg, paints or plastics, and in many cases it is compared to the performance of a standard pigment. The observed changes are the result of complex pigment and media reactions and their possible interactions. In aH evaluations, time of exposure plays a role. 

Pigments Aftertreatments. The surfaces of pigment particles can have different properties and composition than the particle centers. This disparity can be caused by the absorption of ions during wet milling, eg, the —OH groups, on the surface. In some cases, surfaces are modified intentionaHy to improve the pigments appHcation properties, interaction with the organic matrix, and weather resistance. 

In a commercial plastics material there are also normally a number of other ingredients present and these may also be affected by the above agencies. Furthermore they may interact with each other and with the polymer so that the effects of the above agencies may be more, or may be less, drastic. Since different polymers and additives respond in different ways to the influence of chemicals and radiant energy, weathering behaviour can be very specific. 

Other elements of weather and outdoor exposure can interact with UV radiation to accelerate degradation in degradable types of plastics. They include humidity, salt spray, wind, industrial pollutants, and atmospheric impurities such as ozone, biological agents, and temperature. The wavelengths that have the most effect on plastics range from 290 to 400 nm (2,900 to 4,000 A). 

In addition to runoff, rivers transport products of upland weathering to the oceans, forming a key link in the tectonic cycle of uplift and erosion. This interaction will be explored further in Section 6.6. 

For a given set of conditions (lithology, climate, slope, etc.), there is presumably an optimum soil thickness that maximizes the rate of bedrock weathering (Fig. 9-3) (Carson and Kirkby, 1972 Stallard, 1985). For less than optimum soil thicknesses, there is insufficient pore volume in the soil to accept all the water supplied by precipitation and downhill flow. Excess water runs off and does not interact with the subsurface soil and bedrock. In contrast, water infiltrates and circulates slowly through thick soils (especially where forested If profile thicknesses greatly... 

Fig. 9-3 Conceptual model to describe the interaction between chemical weathering of bedrock and down-slope transport of solid erosion products. It is assumed that chemical weathering is required to generate loose solid erosion products of the bedrock. Solid curve portrays a hypothetical relationship between soil thickness and rate of chemical weathering of bedrock. Dotted lines correspond to different potential transport capacities. Low potential transport capacity is expected on a flat terrain, whereas high transport is expected on steep terrain. For moderate capacity, C and F are equilibrium points. (Modified with permission from R. F. Stallard, River chemistry, geology, geomorphology, and soils in the Amazon and Orinoco basins. In J. I. Drever, ed. (1985), "The Chemistry of Weathering," D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, The Netherlands.)...

Figure 9-3 portrays a hypothetical model of how chemical weathering and transport processes interact to control soil thicknesses. The relationship between soil thickness and rate at which chemical weathering can generate loose solid material is indicated by the solid curve. The rate at which transport processes can potentially remove loose solid weathering products is indicated by horizontal dotted lines. The rate of generation by chemical weathering initially increases as more water has the opporhmity to interact with bedrock in the soil. As soil thick-... 

Biological and volcanic activities also have roles in the natural mobilization of elements. Plants can play multiple roles in this process. Root growth breaks down rocks mechanically to expose new surfaces to chenaical weathering, while chemical interactions between plants and the soil solution affect solution pFF and the concentration of salts, in turn affecting the solution-mineral interactions. Plants also aid in decreasing the rate of mechanical erosion by increasing land stability. These factors are discussed more fully in Chapters 6 and 7. 

It has been shown that inclusion of fine mbber particles in asphalt reduces the cracking of pavement in adverse weather conditions [60,61]. There are two methods for introducing ground waste mbber into asphalt, namely, wet and dry processes. Wet process is carried out at 170°C-220°C for 45-120 min. Rubber particles absorb components with similar value of solubility parameter (5) from the asphalt, causing them to swell. The interaction between mbber and asphalt is mainly of physical nature. In the dry process, mbber is used as a replacement for part of the aggregate and is added to the mineral material before the latter is mixed with the asphalt binder. Addition of mbber greatly improves the elasticity of the binder and generally lowers its brittle point. Incorporation of GRT... 

There are four naturally occurring isotopes of Ra " " Ra (ti/2 = 5.8 a) and " Ra (3.7 d) in the Th series, (1600 a) in the series, and Ra (11.7 d) in the series (Table 1). The data for Ra are more limited, since it is generally present in low concentrations due to the low abundance of The differences in half lives and the connections across the different decay series have been used to infer a variety of groundwater and water-rock interaction features. For the short-lived Ra isotopes, the dominant input term to groundwater is recoil, rather than weathering, and steady state concentrations are often achieved (see Section 2.2). 

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