Weathering environments

Last updated on March 31, 2021

Weathering environments as sources of nutrients to the biosphere and archives of Earth’s atmospheric composition.

Kaarel Mänd
Kaarel Mänd
Research Fellow at the University of Tartu

My research focuses on investigating Precambrian redox conditions using trace metal based redox proxies.

Publications

The Kaolinite Shuttle Links the Great Oxidation and Lomagundi Events
The ~2.22–2.06 Ga Lomagundi Event was the longest positive carbon isotope excursion in Earth’s history and is commonly interpreted to …
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The Kaolinite Shuttle Links the Great Oxidation and Lomagundi Events
Trace Elemental Partitioning on Clays Derived from Hydrothermal Muds of the El Tatio Geyser Field, Chile
Recent experimental studies have demonstrated that clay minerals (e.g., kaolinite, illite, and montmorillonite) have higher affinities …
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Trace Elemental Partitioning on Clays Derived from Hydrothermal Muds of the El Tatio Geyser Field, Chile
High-CO$\\_2$, acidic and oxygen-starved weathering at the Fennoscandian Shield at the Archean-Proterozoic transition
Chemical weathering of continental crust plays an important role in Earth‘s surface evolution and also controls the nutrient flow to …
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High-CO$\\_2$, acidic and oxygen-starved weathering at the Fennoscandian Shield at the Archean-Proterozoic transition