Using beryllium-7 to monitor the relative proportions of interrill and rill erosion from loessal soil slopes in a single rainfall event

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 439-448

  Liu, Gang ^a,b   Yang, Ming Yi ^b   Warrington, D N ^b   Liu, Pu Ling ^b   Tian, Jun Liang ^b  

^a CHINA THREE GORGES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Deposition; Hillslope geomorphology; Runoff; Sediments; Simulated rainfall

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM-7; DEPOSITED MATERIALS; DEPOSITED SEDIMENTS; DOWNSLOPE; ERODED SOILS; EROSION PROCESS; FLAT AREA; HILLSLOPES; INTERRILL; MASS BALANCE; OVERLAND FLOW; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; RAINFALL EVENT; RILL EROSION; SEDIMENT MOVEMENT; SIMULATED RAINFALL; SOIL EROSION; SOIL LOSS; SOIL SLOPES; TIME LAG; TIME-SCALES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BERYLLIUM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MATERIALS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; THUNDERSTORMS;

EROSION;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; DEPOSITION; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HILLSLOPE; LOESS; RAINFALL; RAINSTORM; RILL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

EID: 79952507511     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2057     Document Type: Article

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