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 …

Modeling soil processes: Review, key challenges, and new perspectives

H Vereecken, A Schnepf, JW Hopmans… - Vadose zone …, 2016‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services
presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil …

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 …

Quantifying chemical weathering intensity and trace element release from two contrasting basalt profiles, Deccan Traps, India

MG Babechuk, M Widdowson, BS Kamber - Chemical Geology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Weathering profiles developed on basalt substrate contain information relevant to climate,
atmospheric composition and evolution, nutrient release into the hydrosphere, and …

Expanding the role of reactive transport models in critical zone processes

L Li, K Maher, A Navarre-Sitchler, J Druhan, C Meile… - Earth-science …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Models test our understanding of processes and can reach beyond the spatial and
temporal scales of measurements. Multi-component Reactive Transport Models (RTMs) …

Quantitative paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction using paleosols

ND Sheldon, NJ Tabor - Earth-science reviews, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Paleosols (fossil soils) are preserved throughout the geologic record in depositional settings
ranging from alluvial systems to between basalt flows. Until recently, paleosols were studied …

Porphyry deposits: Characteristics and origin of hypogene features

E Seedorff, JH Dilles, JM Proffett, MT Einaudi… - 2005‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Porphyry deposits arguably represent the most economically important class of nonferrous
metallic mineral resources. These magmatic-hydrothermal deposits are characterized by …

Initial validation of a soil-based mass-balance approach for empirical monitoring of enhanced rock weathering rates

T Reershemius, ME Kelland, JS Jordan… - Environmental …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a promising scalable and cost-effective carbon dioxide
removal (CDR) strategy with significant environmental and agronomic co-benefits. A major …

Chemical processes affecting the mobility of major, minor and trace elements during weathering of granitic rocks

JJ Middelburg, CH van der Weijden, JRW Woittiez - Chemical geology, 1988‏ - Elsevier
The behaviour of 38 major and trace elements as well as changes in the mineralogy have
been examined in 10 weathering profiles develo** on some Portuguese granitic rocks …

Weathering of granodioritic crust, long-term storage of elements in weathering profiles, and petrogenesis of siliciclastic sediments

HW Nesbitt, G Markovics - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1997‏ - Elsevier
The bulk composition and mineralogy of the Toorongo Granodiorite, Australia, are similar to
average upper continental crust (AUCC). Weathering characteristics of the Toorongo profile …