Sediment geochemistry and mineralogy from a glacial terrain river system in southwest Iceland

• Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• Main Authors: Thorpe, Michael T., Hurowitz, Joel A., Dehouck, Erwin
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: basaltic terrains; river sediments; sedimentation; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Iceland
• Online Access: https://insu.hal.science/insu-03710119; https://insu.hal.science/insu-03710119/document; https://insu.hal.science/insu-03710119/file/1-s2.0-S0016703719305010-main.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.08.003

International audience The weathering of basalt has implications for the global carbon cycle on Earth as well as for understanding sedimentary processes on other terrestrial bodies dominated by a basaltic crust (e.g., Mars), but yet studies in mafic terrains are limited in comparison to their felsic...