Grain size in landscapes

LS Sklar - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Earth's terrestrial topography evolves in response to the interaction of tectonics, climate, and
lithology. Recent discoveries suggest that the grain size of sediments produced on hillslopes …

Luminescence as a sediment tracer and provenance tool

HJ Gray, M Jain, AO Sawakuchi… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescence holds unique potential as a sediment tracer and provenance method. The
tracer application of luminescence has key advantages including ease of measurement …

Deciphering timing and rates of Central German Chernozem/Phaeozem formation through high resolution single-grain luminescence dating

H von Suchodoletz, M Van Meer, P Kühn, K Wiedner… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Chernozems/Phaeozems are important agricultural resources and have been intensively
used for millennia. However, their origin and age are still controversial. In Europe, the …

Depth-dependent soil mixing persists across climate zones

HJ Gray, A Keen-Zebert, DJ Furbish, GE Tucker… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Soil mixing over long (> 102 y) timescales enhances nutrient fluxes that support soil ecology,
contributes to dispersion of sediment and contaminated material, and modulates fluxes of …

Key processes and timescales of tropical earth formation

T Sprafke, A Kadereit, F Lauer, FCG Rodrigues… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the formation of tropical yellow to red earth (TYRE) is essential for preserving
soil multifunctionality in well-drained tropical landscapes. Weathering and bioturbation …

Bioturbation and erosion rates along the soil‐hillslope conveyor belt, part 1: insights from single‐grain feldspar luminescence

A Román‐Sánchez, T Reimann… - Earth Surface …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The interplay of bioturbation, soil production and long‐term erosion–deposition in soil and
landscape co‐evolution is poorly understood. Single‐grain post‐infrared infrared stimulated …

Which geomorphic processes can be informed by luminescence measurements?

ND Brown - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
Luminescence signals from quartz and feldspar contain a wealth of information about
exposure to heat and sunlight. While many studies have focused on quantifying individual …

Bayesian geomorphology

O Korup - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The rapidly growing amount and diversity of data are confronting us more than ever with the
need to make informed predictions under uncertainty. The adverse impacts of climate …

Quantifying erosion rates and weathering pathways that maximize soil organic carbon storage

JJ Roering, BD Hunter, KL Ferrier, OA Chadwick… - Biogeochemistry, 2023 - Springer
Primary minerals that enter soils through bedrock weathering and atmospheric deposition
can generate poorly crystalline minerals (PCM) that preferentially associate with soil organic …

Bioturbation and erosion rates along the soil‐hillslope conveyor belt, part 2: quantification using an analytical solution of the diffusion–advection equation

A Román‐Sánchez, A Laguna… - Earth Surface …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Particles on soil‐mantled hillslopes are subject to downslope transport by erosion processes
and vertical mixing by bioturbation. Both are key processes for understanding landscape …