How steady are steady-state landscapes? Using visible-near-infrared soil spectroscopy to quantify erosional variability

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 807-810

  Sweeney, Kristin ^a   Roering, Joshua ^a   Almond, Peter ^b   Reckling, Till ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADIA; FOREARC; GEOMORPHIC CONTEXTS; HILLSLOPE EROSION; HILLSLOPES; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LITHOLOGIC CONTROLS; MEAN VALUES; NATURAL LANDSCAPES; OREGON COAST; RESIDENCE TIME; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SOIL PRODUCTION; SOIL TRANSPORTS; STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; UNIFORM SOIL;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; EROSION; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; INFRARED DEVICES; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RUNOFF; SOILS; TECTONICS; WATERSHEDS; WEATHERING;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CATCHMENT; DIKE; GABBRO; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; REGOLITH; SOIL EROSION; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT; WEATHERING;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866285772     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33167.1     Document Type: Article

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