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Contributions to a thermodynamic model of Earth systems on rivers

Author
Iberall, A. S.
Published
Feb 1, 1981.
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Summary
A model for the chemical (ground water) erosion and physical (bed load, including sedimentation) erosion of the land was developed. The rudiments of the relation between a regulated sea level (for the past 2500 million years) and the episodic rise and erosion of continents was examined to obtain some notion of the process scalings. Major process scales of about 200 years, 100,000 years, 3 My, 40 My, 300 My were estimated. It was suggested that a program targeted at ecological management would have to become familiar with processes at the first four scales (i.e., from glaciation to the horizontal movement of continents). The study returns to the initial premise. In order to understand and manage Earth biology (life, and modern man), it is necessary minimally to pursue systems' biogeology at a considerable number of process space and time scales via their irreversible thermodynamic couplings.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 19810014973.
Accession ID: 81N23506.
NASA-CR-164272.
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