Course detail

ECO5054 - Weathering


Credit hours

In-class work
per week
Practice
per week
Credits
Duration
Total
2
2
6
15 weeks
90 hours

Instructor
Antonio Carlos de Azevedo

Objective
The objective of the course is to contribute to the understanding of the chemical elements throughout the terrestrial compartments, starting from rocks and minerals, the mechanisms of their dissolution and/or alteration and the release of chemical elements, which may precipitate as secondary minerals. Along this way, discuss the co-evolution of mineral and cellular systems in terrestrial environments.

Content
1. Introduction; 2. Minerals and rocks; 3.Minerals and cells;. 4. weathering; 5. Physical weathering; 6. Chemical weathering; 7. Biological weathering; 8. Regolith, Saprolite, Soil.

Bibliography
Jenny H. "Factors of soil formation a system of quantitative pedology". McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., New York, 1941;
Dixon, J. B., Weed, S. B. (Sterling B., & Dinauer, R. C. (1989). Minerals in soil environments. Soil Science Society of America.
Velde, B., & Meunier, A. (2008). The origin of clay minerals in soils and weathered rocks. Springer.
Essington, M. E. (2005) SOil and Water Chemistry. CRC Press. 553 p.
Bleam, W. Soil and Environmental Chemistry. 2nd Ed. 2017. 573 p.
Brady, Nyle C. e Weil Ray, R., "Elementos da natureza e propriedades dos solos" 3a Ed. Bookman, 2013, 686p (traduzido por Igo F. Lepsch)."Knoll, A. H.; Canfield, D. E>; Konhauser, K. O. 2012. Fundamentals of Geobiology. 478p.
Several journal papers from Geoderma, Catena, Chemical geology, Geochemical and Cosmochimical Acta;Microbiological Reviews, Frontiers in Microbiology, etc.