Chemical weathering response to tectonic forcing: A soils perspective from the San Gabriel Mountains, California

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 323-324, Issue , 2012, Pages 40-49

  Dixon, Jean L ^a   Hartshorn, Anthony S ^a,b   Heimsath, Arjun M ^a   DiBiase, Roman A ^a   Whipple, Kelin X ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering; Erosion; Kinetic limitation; Soil production; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DENUDATION RATES; EROSION RATES; FRACTURED ROCK; HILLSLOPE EROSION; HILLSLOPES; KINETIC LIMITATION; MINERAL SUPPLY; MINERAL WEATHERING; MODELING STUDIES; MOJAVE DESERT; PARENT MATERIALS; PRIMARY CONTROL; RESIDENCE TIME; SILICATE WEATHERING; SOIL PRODUCTION; SOIL WEATHERING; TECTONIC FORCING; TECTONIC UPLIFT; WEATHERING RATES;

DUST; EROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; KINETICS; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; ROCKS; SOILS; TECTONICS;

WEATHERING;

BEDROCK; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE EFFECT; DENUDATION; DUST; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SAPROLITE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TECTONICS; UPLIFT; WEATHERING RATE;

CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857498971     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.010     Document Type: Article

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