Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Earth's climate may be stabilized over millennia by solubilization of atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) as minerals weather, but the temperature sensitivity of this thermostat is …

Forests are increasingly threatened by climate-change-fuelled cycles of drought, dieback
and wildfires. However, for reasons that remain incompletely understood, some forest stands …

INTRODUCTION Oxidative weathering of pyrite, the most abundant sulfide mineral in Earth's
crust, is coupled to the biogeochemical cycles of sulfur, oxygen, carbon, and iron. Pyrite …

The structure of the critical zone (CZ) is a product of feedbacks among hydrologic, climatic,
biotic, and chemical processes. Past research within snow‐dominated systems has shown …

Climate influences near-surface biogeochemical processes and thereby determines the
partitioning of carbon dioxide (CO2) in shale, and yet the controls on carbon (C) weathering …

The reaction mechanism of weathering of chlorite, an important rock-forming phyllosilicate,
is not well understood in natural settings. In this work we investigated the weathering of Fe …

Two major barriers hinder the holistic understanding of subsurface critical zone (CZ)
evolution and its impacts:(a) an inability to measure, define, and share information and (b) a …

The weathering of shale exerts an important control on the hydrochemical fluxes to river
systems, thus influencing the global carbon, nutrient, and geochemical cycles. However, the …

Fractures in Earth's critical zone influence groundwater flow and storage and promote
chemical weathering. Fractured materials are difficult to characterize on large spatial scales …