The impact of agricultural soil erosion on biogeochemical cycling

JN Quinton, G Govers, K Van Oost, RD Bardgett - Nature Geoscience, 2010 - nature.com
Soils are the main terrestrial reservoir of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, and of
organic carbon. Synthesizing earlier studies, we find that the mobilization and deposition of …

Reconstructing chemical weathering, physical erosion and monsoon intensity since 25 Ma in the northern South China Sea: a review of competing proxies

PD Clift, S Wan, J Blusztajn - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Reconstructing the changing strength of the East Asian summer monsoon has been
controversial because different proxies, many being indirect measures of rainfall, tell …

Tectonic and climatic controls on silicate weathering

AJ West, A Galy, M Bickle - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2005 - Elsevier
Understanding the controls on chemical weathering, especially of silicate minerals, remains
a major challenge, despite its importance in controlling the evolution of the Earth's surface …

The control mechanisms of erosion and weathering at basin scale from cosmogenic nuclides in river sediment

F Von Blanckenburg - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2005 - Elsevier
The study of a sample of river sediment enables the determination of spatially averaged
denudation rates that provide an exceptional perspective on erosion and weathering …

Phanerozoic tin and tungsten mineralization—Tectonic controls on the distribution of enriched protoliths and heat sources for crustal melting

RL Romer, U Kroner - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Phanerozoic primary tin and tungsten deposits and lithium–cesium–tantalum (LCT) type
pegmatites define discontinuous belts that reach several thousand kilometers length …

Understanding earth's eroding surface with 10Be

EW Portenga, PR Bierman - 2011 - scholarworks.uvm.edu
For more than a century, geologists have sought to measure the distribution of erosion rates
on Earth's dynamic surface. Since the mid-1980s, measurements of in situ 10Be, a …

Controls on deep critical zone architecture: A historical review and four testable hypotheses

CS Riebe, WJ Hahm, SL Brantley - Earth Surface Processes …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The base of Earth's critical zone (CZ) is commonly shielded from study by many meters of
overlying rock and regolith. Though deep CZ processes may seem far removed from the …

Assessment of shallow landslide susceptibility using artificial neural networks in Jabonosa River Basin, Venezuela

H Gomez, T Kavzoglu - Engineering Geology, 2005 - Elsevier
Landslides represent one of the most morphodynamic processes that affect the steep lands,
and may destroy croplands as well as urban and industrial development. Landslide risk …

The dependence of chemical weathering rates on fluid residence time

K Maher - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
In order to evaluate the importance of hydrologic processes in controlling chemical
weathering rates, a reactive transport analysis is used to interpret chemical weathering rate …

Erosional and climatic effects on long-term chemical weathering rates in granitic landscapes spanning diverse climate regimes

CS Riebe, JW Kirchner, RC Finkel - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2004 - Elsevier
We used cosmogenic nuclide and geochemical mass balance methods to measure long-
term rates of chemical weathering and total denudation in granitic landscapes in diverse …