Quantifying effects of deep and near-surface chemical erosion on cosmogenic nuclides in soils, saprolite, and sediment

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 523-533

  Riebe, Clifford S ^a   Granger, Darryl E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic nuclide methods; Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory; Saprolite weathering; Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; CRITICAL ZONES; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; GENERAL EXPRESSION; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; NUCLIDE CONCENTRATIONS; POTENTIAL SOURCES;

BUILDINGS; CATCHMENTS; EROSION; MINERALS; OBSERVATORIES; OLIVINE; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WEATHERING;

ISOTOPES;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; REGOLITH; SAPROLITE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84876071336     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3339     Document Type: Article

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