Minimal climatic control on erosion rates in the Sierra Nevada, California

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 447-450

  Riebe, Clifford S ^a   Kirchner, James W ^a   Granger, Darryl E ^a   Finkel, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Cosmogenic nuclides; Erosion rates

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONTROL; EROSION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

GRANITIC TERRAIN;

GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874988904     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0447:MCCOER>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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