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Photo credits: AFM image by Penn State student Melissa and Kent State Professor Pat Maurice; Bacteria imaged on hornblende by Ed Basgall and Laura Liermann.




SEM image of Streptomyces sp. growing on hornblende (Buss et al., 2007)


Road cut in the Rio Icacos watershed of Puerto Rico showing spheroidal weathering diorite (Fletcher et al., 2006)


A stream impacted by acid mine drainage near Silverton, Colorado. (Kimball et al., 2009)


Azotobacter vinelandii is a nitrogen-fixing soil bacterium that may use a molybdophore to take up Mo (Liermann et al., 2005)
ShaleHills


Working at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (Jin et al., 2010)



A polished albite crystal.....more
Pete Sak

Weathering rind formed on an andesite clast, Guadeloupe (Sak et al., 2010)


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Calculated relationship between fraction of albite remaining on weathered surface as a function of erosion rate (Lebedeva et al., 2010)


Column Reactor Dissolution of granite and basalt in column reactors (Katya Bazilevskaya)