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 …

Coastal flooding in Asian megadeltas: Recent advances, persistent challenges, and call for actions amidst local and global changes

M Becker, K Seeger, A Paszkowski… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Asian megadeltas, specifically the Ganges‐Brahmaputra‐Meghna, Irrawaddy, Chao Phraya,
Mekong, and Red River deltas host half of the world's deltaic population and are vital for …

Sediment delivery to sustain the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta under climate change and anthropogenic impacts

JL Raff, SL Goodbred Jr, JL Pickering… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The principal nature-based solution for offsetting relative sea-level rise in the Ganges-
Brahmaputra delta is the unabated delivery, dispersal, and deposition of the rivers'~ 1 billion …

Provenance control on chemical indices of weathering (Taiwan river sands)

E Garzanti, A Resentini - Sedimentary geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Geochemical parameters obtained from the analysis of sediments and sedimentary rocks
are widely used to infer weathering and paleo-weathering conditions in source areas …

Predominant floodplain over mountain weathering of Himalayan sediments (Ganga basin)

M Lupker, C France-Lanord, V Galy, J Lavé… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
We present an extensive river sediment dataset covering the Ganga basin from the
Himalayan front downstream to the Ganga mainstream in Bangladesh. These sediments …

Increasing chemical weathering in the Himalayan system since the Last Glacial Maximum

M Lupker, C France-Lanord, V Galy, J Lavé… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Continental chemical weathering is central in Earth's surface biogeochemical cycles as it
redistributes elements across reservoirs such as the crust and the oceans. However the …

Revisiting the effects of hydrodynamic sorting and sedimentary recycling on chemical weathering indices

Y Guo, S Yang, N Su, C Li, P Yin, Z Wang - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2018 - Elsevier
Although the proxies based on elemental geochemistry of siliciclastic sediments have been
well developed to indicate the intensity of chemical weathering in various catchments, their …

Mud in rivers transported as flocculated and suspended bed material

MP Lamb, J de Leeuw, WW Fischer, AJ Moodie… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Riverine transport of silt and clay particles—or mud—builds continental landscapes and
dominates the fluxes of sediment and organic carbon across Earth's surface. Compared with …

Weathering geochemistry and Sr‐Nd fingerprints of equatorial upper Nile and Congo muds

E Garzanti, M Padoan, M Setti… - Geochemistry …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates processes of sediment generation in equatorial central Africa. An
original, complete and integrated mineralogical‐geochemical database on silt‐sized …

Recent sediment flux to the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta system

M Rahman, M Dustegir, R Karim, A Haque… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The physical sustainability of deltaic environments is very much dependent on the volume of
water and sediment coming from upstream and the way these fluxes recirculate within the …