The sensitivity of hillslope bedrock erosion to precipitation

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 117-135

  Owen, Justine J ^a   Amundson, Ronald ^a   Dietrich, William E ^b   Nishiizumi, Kunihiko ^c   Sutter, Brad ^d   Chong, Guillermo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^e Depto de Ciencias Geológicas   (Chile)

Author keywords

Atacama; Climate; Cosmogenic radionuclides; Erosion; Hillslope

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CHANNELS; ATACAMA; BEDROCK EROSION; CLIMATE; CLIMATE REGIONS; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; DENUDATION RATES; EROSION RATES; HILLSLOPE EROSION; HILLSLOPES; HUMID REGIONS; INCISION RATES; NORTHERN CHILE; POWER LAW; PRECIPITATION RATES; SEMI ARID; SEMI-ARID REGION; SOIL FORMATIONS; SOIL PRODUCTION; SOIL THICKNESS; STABLE BOUNDARY; STUDY AREAS; TECTONIC SETTINGS;

ARID REGIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; RADIOISOTOPES; SOILS; TECTONICS;

EROSION;

BEDROCK; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; DENUDATION; EROSION RATE; HILLSLOPE; POWER LAW; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; WATER EROSION;

ATACAMA; CHILE;

EID: 78650488315     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2083     Document Type: Article

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