Quantifying the controls on potential soil production rates: A case study of the San Gabriel Mountains, California

Earth Surface Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 479-492

  Pelletier, Jon D ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; EROSION RATE; HILLSLOPE; POROSITY; REGOLITH; SOIL COVER; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION COVER;

CALIFORNIA; SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85028370963     PISSN: 21966311     EISSN: 2196632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esurf-5-479-2017     Document Type: Article

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