Earth surface erosion and weathering from the 10Be (meteoric)/ 9Be ratio

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 351-352, Issue , 2012, Pages 295-305

  von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm ^a   Bouchez, Julien ^a   Wittmann, Hella ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amazon river; Cosmogenic nuclides; Critical zone; Earth surface processes; River weathering and erosion fluxes

Indexed keywords

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZON RIVER; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; CRITICAL ZONE; DENUDATION RATES; DISSOLVED LOAD; EARTH SURFACE; EARTH SURFACE PROCESS; EROSION RATES; HILLSLOPES; ISOTOPE RATIO; LEACHATES; MASS BALANCE EQUATIONS; RIVER BASINS; RIVER WATER; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SOIL COLUMN; SPATIAL SCALE; STABLE ISOTOPES; STEADY STATE; TIME-SCALES; WATER SAMPLES;

EROSION; ISOTOPES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

WEATHERING;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENUDATION; EROSION RATE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LITHOLOGY; MASS BALANCE; PARENT BODY; WEATHERING RATE;

AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 84865756132     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.022     Document Type: Article

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