Eroding the land: Steady-state and stochastic rates and processes through a cosmogenic lens

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 415, Issue , 2006, Pages 111-129

  Heimsath, Arjun M ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion; Landscape evolution; Soil production; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOILS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; POINT MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENT PRODUCTION; SOIL PRODUCTION; SOIL-MANTLED LANDSCAPES; STEADY STATE RATES;

EROSION;

BEDROCK; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EROSION RATE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUARTZ; SAPROLITE; SOIL PROPERTY; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 70349164528     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2415(07)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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