Rock-disintegration by Salts

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 26 Sep 1918 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 102, pages 66-66 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: Carus-Wilson, C.;

doi: 10.1038/102066a0

Rock-disintegration by Salts

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THE reference in NATURE for September 19, p. 50, to Mr. J. T. Jutson's paper dealing with the influence of the crystallisation of soluble salts in promoting the weathering of rocks reminds me of Il Fungo, an isolated mushroom-shaped rock opposite Lacco Almeno, on the north shore of Ischia. Formed of porous volcanic tuff, the sea-water rapidly ascends by capillarity, and, being evaporated, large crystals of salt are produced on the face of the rock. As these natural processes are most active over an area about midway between the sea and the summit, the sides, there are being hollowed out very rapidly, large flakes of rock constantly falling.

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