Weathering rates of buried machine‐polished rock disks, Kärkevagge, Swedish Lapland

• Published in: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
• Main Authors: Thorn, Colin E., Darmody, Robert G., Dixon, John C., Schlyter, Peter
• Other Authors: University of Arkansas, Illinois, University of Lund, National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: Arctic; Kärkevagge; Lapland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.355; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fesp.355; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/esp.355

Abstract Some 48 dolomite, 37 granite, and 19 limestone machine‐polished disks were buried at soil horizon boundaries in 16 soil pits to maximum depths of 0·5–0·6 m within Kärkevagge, a presently periglacial, glaciated trough in Arctic Sweden. The objective of the ongoing study is to determine near‐...