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WEATHERING

Traducere în limba română

weathering substantiv

1. alterare, degradare, dezagregare (a rocilor); eroziune.

2. (constr.)ciubuc la rama de jos a ferestrei.

3. ruginire.

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The findings show that rock weathering is a globally significant source of nitrogen to soils and ecosystems.

(New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth’s bedrock, National Science Foundation)

Crystalline calcium carbonate found in ocean sediments, usually derived from continental weathering of carbonate rock.

(Detrital carbonate, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

This would reduce the weathering from the solar wind, leaving brighter regions over protected areas.

(NASA Research Gives New Insights into How the Moon Got 'Inked', NASA)

Riebe and his team discovered, however, that expansion in rocks dominates the weathering process in the southern Sierra Nevada region.

(Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada, National Science Foundation)

The results show that gravestones are great places for understanding microbes' survival on rock surfaces and their contributions to rock weathering, the scientists say.

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)

This photo-oxidation process (also known as photochemical "weathering") is similar to the process that causes paint on cars or colors on clothes to fade if they are left out in the sun for too long.

(Sunlight reduces effectiveness of dispersants used to clean up oil spills, National Science Foundation)

But a new study at the University of California (UC), Davis, shows that more than a quarter of that nitrogen is derived from the weathering of Earth's bedrock.

(New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth’s bedrock, National Science Foundation)

Perhaps the magnetic field shields the surface from weathering by the solar wind.

(NASA Research Gives New Insights into How the Moon Got 'Inked', NASA)

A University of Wyoming researcher and his team have discovered that weathering of subsurface rock in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California is due more to rocks expanding than to chemical decomposition, as previously thought.

(Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada, National Science Foundation)

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