Long-term rates of chemical weathering and physical erosion from cosmogenic nuclides and geochemical mass balance

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 67, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4411-4427

  Riebe, Clifford S ^a   Kirchner, James W ^a   Finkel, Robert C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MASS BALANCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; WEATHERING RATE;

ICACOS RIVER; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0242456347     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00382-X     Document Type: Article

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