Effects of physical erosion on chemical denudation rates: A numerical modeling study of soil-mantled hillslopes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 591-599

  Ferrier, Ken L ^a,b   Kirchner, James W ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

chemical weathering; cosmogenic nuclides; denudation; physical erosion

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; CHEMICAL DENUDATION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES; HILLSLOPES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; SECONDARY MINERALS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EROSION; GARNETS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MINERALS; MODELS; SILICATE MINERALS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; SULFATE MINERALS;

WEATHERING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BEDROCK; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HILLSLOPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGOLITH; WEATHERING RATE;

EID: 48149091071     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.05.024     Document Type: Article

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