Abstract
Although the volume of continental waters is insignificant with respect to the mass of the hydrosphere, these waters have their particular importance as the basis of our freshwater supply as well as geochemically, since they are responsible for most of the weathering and erosion of the land masses. In the latter sense terrestrial waters are the major medium involved in the “exogenic cycle”, i.e. processes on the earth’s surface and uppermost lithological units, in which solid and dissolved weathering products are transported, deposited and solidified, and — after diagenesis and tectonic uplift — may be exposed to weathering and erosion again. While most of these processes of deposition and rock formation take place in the marine milieu, there are characteristic geochemical interactions in the soils and, particularly interesting, in the lacustrine environment.
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Salomons, W., Förstner, U. (1984). Metals in Continental Water. In: Metals in the Hydrocycle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69325-0_5
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