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Ronald I. Dorn and David H. Krinsley
Conventional scholarship long held that rock fracturing from physical processes dominates over chemical rock decay processes in cold climates. The paradigm of the supremacy of cold-climate shattering was questioned by Rapp?s discovery (1960) that the flu...
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Kai Ziervogel, Manoj Kamalanathan and Antonietta Quigg
Biological oil weathering facilitated by specialized heterotrophic microbial communities plays a key role in the fate of petroleum hydrocarbon in the ocean. The most common methods of assessing oil biodegradation involve (i) measuring changes in the comp...
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Roger Rowell and Ferry Bongers
Wood exposed to the outdoor environment is susceptible to weathering due to a series of chemical, biological and physical processes. Acetylation of wood is known to reduce cell wall moisture content, improve dimensional stability and durability against f...
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Martina Zuena, Patrizia Tomasin, Dória Costa, José Delgado-Rodrigues and Elisabetta Zendri
The combination of multiple physical, chemical and biological factors causes the weathering of limestone used in the field of cultural heritage. To overcome the limitations of traditional consolidating products and to meet the requirements of the histori...
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Kai Zhang, Dongli Li, Xuejun He, Changyuan Xie and Haibo He
Sedimentary organic matter is an important component of the metabolism of a lake?s ecosystem, and it is generally derived from both the watershed and the primary productivity of a lake. Understanding the sources of organic matter in lakes and lake trophi...
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Zunaira Asif, Zhi Chen, Chunjiang An and Jinxin Dong
Oil spills are of great concern because they impose a threat to the marine ecosystem, including shorelines. As oil spilled at sea is transported to the shoreline, and after its arrival, its behavior and physicochemical characteristics change because of n...
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Elena A. Hensel, Martin Kehl, Luisa Wöstehoff, Katharina Neumann, Ralf Vogelsang and Olaf Bubenzer
The Sodicho Rockshelter in the southwestern Ethiopian Highlands presents a unique site that contains sediments of Upper Pleistocene and Holocene occupation phases of hunter-gatherer communities. Excavations and previous geoarchaeological research provide...
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Mariaenrica Frigione and Mariateresa Lettieri
In order to protect a material belonging to Cultural Heritage (i.e., stone, wood) from weathering, and in turn to preserve its beauty and historical value for the future generations, the contact with external harmful agents, particularly water, must be a...
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Elissavet Dotsika, Dafni Kyropoulou, Vassilios Christaras and Georgios Diamantopoulos
Samples of mortars were collected from lime and hydraulic mortars affected by environmental degradation. A total of 63 samples were obtained from Hellenistic, Late Roman and Byzantine historic constructions located at Kavala, Drama and Makrygialos in Nor...
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