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Mechanical weathering rates on Signy Island, maritime antarctic

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By means of re‐evaluating a number of properties of rock tablets left in the field for varying time periods, an estimation of rock breakdown rates is attained. From data obtained during the last five years, it would appear that rates are very slow, only of the order of 2% mass loss per 100 years. These rates refer to omnidirectionally frozen, relatively wet samples and, on the basis of laboratory simulation results, are over 50 times greater than for unidirectionally frozen bedrock. It is suggested that mechanical weathering rates in the maritime Antarctic are very slow. En réévaluant différentes propriétés de tablettes de roche laissées sur le terrain pour des périodes de temps variées, une estimation des vitesses de fragmentation de ces roches a été obtenue. A partir des données recueillies pendant les cinq dernières années, il apparait que les vitesses de désagrégation sont très lentes et atteignent seulement par siècle une perte de l'ordre de 2% de la masse. Ces vitesses se rapportent à des gels dans toutes les directions d'échantillons relativement humides. Elles sont cependant 50 fois supérieures à ce qui se produit lorsque la roche gèle dans une seule direction. Ces données suggèrent que la désagrégation mécanique des roches dans l'Antarctique maritime est très lente.

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  • Kevin Hall, 1990. "Mechanical weathering rates on Signy Island, maritime antarctic," Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 1(1), pages 61-67, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:perpro:v:1:y:1990:i:1:p:61-67
    DOI: 10.1002/ppp.3430010108
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