The weathered Carboniferous limestone at Bullslaughter Bay, South Wales : the first example of ghost-rock recorded in the British Isles

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F14%3A10192215" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/14:10192215 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985891:_____/14:00422361

Result on the web

—

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

—

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The weathered Carboniferous limestone at Bullslaughter Bay, South Wales : the first example of ghost-rock recorded in the British Isles

Original language description

The Carboniferous Limestone at Bullslaughter Bay hosts some of the most notable examples of deep weathering in the British Isles as well as two members of an enigmatic suite of breccias known as the Gash Breccias. The weathered limestone has been investigated thoroughly in order to identify the process responsible for the weathering. In this paper it is demonstrated that the weathering is isovolumetric but the weathering profile is not characterised by a vertical gradient and its depth suggests that meteoric waters did not contribute significantly to the weathering process. The weathered limestone has lost significant amounts of calcium and parts are virtually decalcified. It is seen that the dominant primary minerals of illite and quartz have been preserved while secondary clay minerals are generally absent. The weathered limestone cannot be a saprolite sensu stricto as it has been subjected to only restricted chemical processes. It is, therefore, interpreted as a "ghost-rock". This t

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DB - Geology and mineralogy

OECD FORD branch

—

Project

—

Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geologica Belgica

ISSN

1374-8505

e-ISSN

—

Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

BE - BELGIUM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

33-42

UT code for WoS article

000333884200006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

—