Regolith production and transport at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, part 2: Insights from meteoric10Be

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1877-1896

  West, Nicole ^a   Kirby, Eric ^a,b   Bierman, Paul ^c   Slingerland, Rudy ^a   Ma, Lin ^d   Rood, Dylan ^e,f   Brantley, Susan ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^e SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f Biology and Biotechnology Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; EROSION; HILLSLOPE; REGOLITH; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

PENNSYLVANIA; SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887831657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrf.20121     Document Type: Article

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