Abstract Rock weathering is a key component of the rock cycle that transforms rocks in sediments, soils and/or dissolves minerals to ions, and plays an important role in landforms development and landscape evolution. The quantification of weathering is often challenging due to the impact of measuring techniques on the rock itself and/or the assumptions required to perform the calculations. Among different methods used to quantify rock weathering, rock tablet method is one of the most widely used. The rock tablet method consists of cutting rock samples in a shape that allows precise calculation of their volume and surface. These rock pieces, often named tablets when they are flat, are dried, precisely weighed and exposed to the natural environment for certain amount of time. After retrieval, the same laboratory procedure is repeated, and from the weight loss, the weathering rate is calculated. When the density of the rock is known and it is reasonable to assume that the lost material is removed from the ground surface, the weight loss can be used to calculate denudation rates. This is the case in karst regions, where rock tablets are one of the most commonly used methods to calculate denudation. This simple and versatile method requires only a limited amount of laboratory equipment to be implemented which makes it very popular. However, experimental design, preparation of samples and calculations are not homogeneous among researchers, sometimes making the results of this method challenging to be evaluated and compared. In this paper we describe the rock tablet method, include its historical overview, review the most significant studies that have used this technique, highlight its limitations, introduce correction factors to minimize some of those limitations, and provide good practice recommendations to help other researchers to obtain comparable results around the world.

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用石片法测量岩石风化和景观剥蚀

摘要 岩石风化是岩石循环的重要组成部分，它使沉积物、土壤中的岩石转变和/或将矿物质溶解为离子，在地貌发育和景观演化中起着重要作用。由于测量技术对岩石本身和/或执行计算所需的假设的影响，风化的量化通常具有挑战性。在用于量化岩石风化的不同方法中，岩石压片法是应用最广泛的方法之一。岩石压片法包括将岩石样品切割成可以精确计算其体积和表面的形状。这些岩石碎片，通常在它们平坦时被称为片剂，经过干燥、精确称重并暴露在自然环境中一段时间​​。检索后，重复相同的实验室程序，并由失重计算风化率。当岩石的密度已知并且可以合理地假设损失的材料已从地表移除时，重量损失可用于计算剥蚀率。在喀斯特地区就是这种情况，其中岩片是计算剥蚀最常用的方法之一。这种简单而通用的方法只需要有限数量的实验室设备即可实施，因此非常受欢迎。然而，研究人员之间的实验设计、样品制备和计算并不相同，有时使得这种方法的结果难以评估和比较。在本文中，我们描述了石板法，包括其历史概述，回顾了使用该技术的最重要的研究，