Exploring weathering and regolith transport controls on Critical Zone development with models and natural experiments

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Anderson, Suzanne P ^a   Anderson, Robert S ^a   Hinckley, Eve Lyn S ^a   Kelly, Patrick ^a   Blum, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABLES; EROSION RATES; FIRST ORDER; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; NUMERICAL MODELS; QUATERNARY CLIMATE; SLOPE ASPECT; TRANSPORT CONTROL;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; SOIL MECHANICS;

WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EROSION RATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUATERNARY; REGOLITH; SAPROLITE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BOULDER CREEK; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 79955964875     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.03.014     Document Type: Article

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