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September Gsat 03 Penrose Conference Announcement: Origin and Uplift of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA, p. 11 VOL. 20, No. 2 A PUBLICATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA FEBRUARY 2010 Rock to regolith conversion: Producing hospitable substrates for terrestrial ecosystems Inside: ▲ Final Announcement and Call for Papers: GSA Cordilleran Section, Joint with Pacific Section, AAPG, p. 12 ▲ New GSA Members, p. 16 ▲ Report: Inaugural Young Earth-Scientists Congress, Beijing, China, p. 21 ▲ Penrose Conference Report: Low d18O Rhyolites and Crustal Melting: Growth and Redistribution of the Continental Crust, p. 24 Not Just Software. RockWare. For Over 27 Years. New ® Version ! 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Fastovsky, University of Rhode Island, Department of Geosciences, Woodward Hall, Rm. 317, 22 GSA Foundation Update Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, USA, [email protected]. Managing Editor: Kristen E. Asmus, [email protected]; [email protected] 23 In Memoriam Graphics Production: Margo Y. Sajban ADVERTISING: 23 GSA Section Meeting Mentor Program Schedule Classifieds & Display: Ann Crawford, +1-800-472-1988, ext. 1053, +1-303-357-1053, Fax +1-303-357-1070; [email protected] 24 Penrose Conference Report: Low d18O Rhyolites and Crustal GSA ONLINE: www.geosociety.org Melting: Growth and Redistribution of the Continental Crust Printed in the USA using pure soy inks. 26 2010 Calendar of GSA Deadlines & Events 28 Classified Advertising 30 Coming Soon to GSA Today 30 Journal Highlights Rock to regolith conversion: Producing hospitable substrates for terrestrial ecosystems Robert C. Graham, Ann M. Rossi, Soil & Water Sciences POROSITY FORMATION AND GRANITIC ROCK Program, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of WEATHERING California, Riverside, California 92521-0424, USA, and Kenneth Unweathered granitic plutons are commonly jointed. The R. Hubbert, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research joints are the result of stresses on the rock mass, including Station, 3644 Avtech Parkway, Redding, California 96002, USA those associated with thermal, tectonic, and erosional unload- ing processes. Joint spacings range from several decimeters to ABSTRACT several meters, can be orthogonally oriented, and depend on Weathering processes transform hard fresh rock into fri- the geologic history of the rock. In unweathered bedrock, the able weathered rock, which is then physically disrupted to joint fractures are empty planar voids that range in width from become soil. These regolith materials mantle the land masses a fraction of a millimeter to more than a centimeter (Bergbauer and support terrestrial life but their formation involves some of and Martel, 1999). Fractures are the main source of hydraulic the least understood of Earth’s surficial processes. The conver- connectivity in unweathered bedrock (Paillet, 1993). The rock sion of biologically inert hard rock to a hospitable substrate for mass between the joints contains minor porosity, usually 1% or organisms begins with the production of porosity by weather- less (Twidale and Vidal Romaní, 2005), in the form of micro- ing. Porosity allows water to flow through weathered rock, but fractures <1 µm wide and microporosity within mineral grains it also imparts a water-holding capacity so that water can be (Sardini et al., 2006). The microfractures are generated by stored for prolonged use by organisms. Organisms themselves, stresses incurred during cooling, hydrothermal activity, or tec- in the form of microbes and plant roots, invade the rock as tonism (Schild et al., 2001). Micropores within mineral grains porosity forms. Production of porosity is the fundamental pro- form during crystallization and cooling. Meteoric water flowing cess responsible for converting rock into a medium capable down joint fractures initially enters the bedrock mass through of supporting terrestrial ecosystems. Consequently, the rate inherent microfractures, thereby beginning the chemical weath- of porosity formation during rock weathering is the ultimate ering process (Meunier et al., 2007). measure of the production and sustainability of ecosystem- In biotite-bearing granites, ion exchange weathering is an functional substrates. important first step in generating bulk rock porosity. The re- placement of interlayer K by hydrated Mg cations results in INTRODUCTION expansion of the biotite structure as the mineral is transformed Fresh bedrock exposed at the land surface is an inhospi- to vermiculite (Wahrhaftig, 1965; Nettleton et al., 1970; Isher- table substrate for most life. Exposed bedrock has very low wood and Street, 1976). This expansion, which involves a porosity and hydraulic conductivity (Zhao, 1998; Schild et al., 30%–40% increase in volume, exploits the weakness imparted 2001); consequently, rain and snowmelt run off from it imme- by the lithogenic microfractures and shatters the rock. A small- diately. Water is not stored, so plants do not have a reservoir er expansion of biotite has been noted to occur upon oxidation from
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