Quantitative determination of long-term erosion rates of weathered granitic soil surfaces in western Abukuma, Japan using cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al depth profile

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Shiroya, Kazuyo ^a,a   Yokoyama, Yusuke ^a,a   Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al; depth profile; erosion rate; sampling depth; weathered granitic soil surface

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALUMINUM; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; EROSION RATE; PARAMETERIZATION; PEDOGENESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROFILE; WEATHERING PROFILE; WEATHERING RATE;

ABUKUMA MOUNTAINS; FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 79957969715     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.1.0110     Document Type: Article

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