Fluvial and slope-wash erosion of soil-mantled landscapes: Detachment- or transport-limited?

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-51

  Pelletier, Jon D ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Detachment limited; Numerical modeling; Soil erosion; Transport limited

Indexed keywords

DETACHMENT-LIMITED; DISTRIBUTARY CHANNELS; EROSION RATES; EROSION/DEPOSITION; EVOLUTION MODELING; EVOLUTION MODELS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLOWING WATERS; HILLSLOPES; NON-LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODELING; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; ROCK FRAGMENTS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL TEXTURES; SOIL-MANTLED LANDSCAPES; SPACE AND TIME; STREAM POWER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSPORT-LIMITED; VEGETATION COVER;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EROSION; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CLAY SOIL; EROSION RATE; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; HILLSLOPE; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILTY SOIL; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 84855341774     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2187     Document Type: Review

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