Weathering and morphogenesis in a mediterranean climate, Calabria, Italy

Auteurs :
LE PERA, E.
SORRISO-VALVO, M.

Description :
Deeply weathered plutonic rocks occur widely in the Sila Massif, Calabria, southern Italy. The AA. have chosen three representative weathering profiles developed on the hilltops as a natural laboratory to study the generation of sand-sized particles from in situ weathering of granite and granodiorite, under heavy leaching conditions. Although most of the study area can be regarded as a relict old continental surface, correlation between weathering profile mineralogy and texture and current climate suggests that the alteration process is still active under present-day conditions.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Geomorphology (Amsterdam), issn : 0169-555X, 2000, vol. 34, n°. 3-4, p. 251-270, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 56 ref.

Date :
2000

Editeur :
Pays édition : Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, Elsevier