Mountains, erosion and the carbon cycle

RG Hilton, AJ West - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Mountain building results in high erosion rates and the interaction of rocks with the
atmosphere, water and life. Carbon transfers that result from increased erosion could control …

High rates of rock organic carbon oxidation sustained as Andean sediment transits the Amazon foreland-floodplain

M Dellinger, RG Hilton, JJ Baronas… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The oxidation of organic carbon contained within sedimentary rocks (“petrogenic” carbon, or
hereafter OCpetro) emits nearly as much CO2 as is released by volcanism, thereby playing …

Sources of dissolved carbon in large rivers: insights from coupled 13C-14C in the upper Changjiang (Yangtze) River

J Zhong, A Galy, S Zolkos, S Xu, CQ Liu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Export of dissolved carbon from rivers connects terrestrial and oceanic carbon cycling, and
represents a key component of global carbon budgets. In this study, we measured the …

Co-variation of silicate, carbonate and sulfide weathering drives CO2 release with erosion

A Bufe, N Hovius, R Emberson, JKC Rugenstein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Global climate is thought to be modulated by the supply of minerals to Earth's surface.
Whereas silicate weathering removes carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere …

The impacts of erosion on the carbon cycle

H Zheng, C Miao, C Huntingford, P Tarolli… - Reviews of …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Physical and chemical erosion associated with water both affect land–atmosphere carbon
exchanges. However, previous studies have often addressed these processes separately or …

Deep CO2 release and the carbon budget of the central Apennines modulated by geodynamics

E Erlanger, A Bufe, G Paris, I D'Angeli, L Pisani… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent studies increasingly recognize the importance of critical-zone weathering during
mountain building for long-term CO2 drawdown and release. However, the focus on near …

Synchronous evaporation and aquatic primary production in tropical river networks

J Zhong, MB Wallin, W Wang, SL Li, L Guo, K Dong… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Rivers play an important role in global water and carbon cycling, but there are still large
uncertainties concerning evaporation and aquatic photosynthesis. Here we combined …

Provenance versus weathering control on sediment composition in tropical monsoonal climate (South China)-1. Geochemistry and clay mineralogy

J He, E Garzanti, P Dinis, S Yang, H Wang - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
This study presents an integrated mineralogical and geochemical database on mud and
sand transported by the Pearl River (Zhujiang) and coastal rivers of SE China. Clay …

Terrigenous humic substances regulate the concentrations of dissolved Fe and Cu (but not Al, Mn, Ni or Zn) in the Gao** River plume

FLL Muller, SPC Tankéré-Muller, CH Tang - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The small mountainous rivers of Oceania discharge a large fraction of their dissolved and
particulate load of materials within a very small percentage of the time. As a result, the yearly …

[HTML][HTML] Capturing the short-term variability of carbon dioxide emissions from sedimentary rock weathering in a remote mountainous catchment, New Zealand

T Roylands, RG Hilton, MH Garnett, G Soulet… - Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Weathering of organic carbon contained in sedimentary rocks (petrogenic OC, OC petro) is
an important control on the concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO 2) and oxygen in the …