The soil production function and landscape equilibrium

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6640, 1997, Pages 358-361

  Heimsath, Arjun M ^a   Dietrichs, William E ^a   Nishiizuml, Kunihiko ^a   Finkel, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK DISINTEGRATION; HILLSLOPE CURVATURE; LANDSCAPE EQUILIBRIUM; PEDOGENESIS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL;

EID: 0030872655     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/41056     Document Type: Article

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