Using sediment travel distance to estimate medium-term erosion rates: A 16-year record

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1694-1700

  Parsons, Anthony John ^a   Wainwright, John ^a   Fukuwara, Tomomi ^b   Onda, Yuichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erosion rate; Grain travel distance; Hillslope; Magnetic susceptibility; Magnetite; Rainfall simulation; Sediment flux

Indexed keywords

EROSION RATES; HILLSLOPES; RAINFALL SIMULATION; SEDIMENT FLUX; TRAVEL DISTANCE;

CATCHMENTS; CESIUM; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETITE; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EROSION;

CARBON ISOTOPE; EROSION RATE; HILLSLOPE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETITE; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 77958541874     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2011     Document Type: Article

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