Exploring geochemical controls on weathering and erosion of convex hillslopes: Beyond the empirical regolith production function

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 1793-1807

  Lebedeva, Marina I ^a   Brantley, Susan L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curvature; Hillslope evolution; Reactive transport modeling; Regolith; Weathering

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; EROSION; FORECASTING; GEOCHEMISTRY; LANDFORMS; MINERALS; MODELS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

BIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CURVATURE; EFFECT OF CURVATURE; HILLSLOPE EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL DEFINITIONS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; REGOLITH;

WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CURVATURE; DISSOLUTION; EROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HILLSLOPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REGOLITH; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 84882995012     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3424     Document Type: Article

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