Estimating millennial-scale rates of dust incorporation into eroding hillslope regolith using cosmogenic nuclides and immobile weathering tracers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Ferrier, Ken L ^a   Kirchner, James W ^b,c,d   Finkel, Robert C ^d,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DEPOSITION; DUST; ESTIMATION METHOD; HILLSLOPE; MASS BALANCE; REGOLITH; TRACER;

IDAHO; SALMON RIVER [IDAHO]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053061045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF001991     Document Type: Article

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