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Science 27 October 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5236, p. 586
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5236.586
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Perspectives

Fred T. Mackenzie, Lee R. Kump

Reverse weathering is a process by which new clays are formed by chemical combination of elemental material from oceans and marine sediments. Mackenzie and Kump review the history of research into this process and comment on the research report by Michalopoulos and Aller (p. 614), which has "reopened the Pandora's box of reverse weathering in sediments."

F. T. Mackenzie is in the Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu HI 96822, USA. E-mail: fredm@soest.hawaii.edu. L. R. Kump is in the Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: kump@geosc.psu.edu


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