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 …

Extracting the most from terrestrial plant-derived n-alkyl lipids and their carbon isotopes from the sedimentary record: A review

AF Diefendorf, EJ Freimuth - Organic Geochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Terrestrial plant biomarkers and their carbon isotopes provide insights into carbon cycling,
paleovegetation and paleoclimate, ranging in scale from local to global. Over the past …

The acid and alkalinity budgets of weathering in the Andes–Amazon system: Insights into the erosional control of global biogeochemical cycles

MA Torres, AJ West, KE Clark, G Paris… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
The correlation between chemical weathering fluxes and denudation rates suggests that
tectonic activity can force variations in atmospheric pCO 2 by modulating weathering fluxes …

Times associated with source-to-sink propagation of environmental signals during landscape transience

S Tofelde, A Bernhardt, L Guerit… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sediment archives in the terrestrial and marine realm are regularly analyzed to infer
changes in climate, tectonic, or anthropogenic boundary conditions of the past. However …

Plant leaf wax biomarkers capture gradients in hydrogen isotopes of precipitation from the Andes and Amazon

SJ Feakins, LP Bentley, N Salinas, A Shenkin… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
Plant leaf waxes have been found to record the hydrogen isotopic composition of
precipitation and are thus used to reconstruct past climate. To assess how faithfully they …

Geomorphic regime modulates hydrologic control of chemical weathering in the Andes–Amazon

MA Torres, AJ West, KE Clark - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
The interplay between the hydrologic processes that supply, store, and route water in
catchment systems and the chemical weathering reactions that add and remove solutes acts …

Response of the Amazon rainforest to late Pleistocene climate variability

C Häggi, CM Chiessi, U Merkel, S Mulitza… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Variations in Amazonian hydrology and forest cover have major consequences for the
global carbon and hydrological cycles as well as for biodiversity. Yet, the climate and …

Changes in dominant moisture sources and the consequences for hydroclimate on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau during the past 32 kyr

EK Thomas, Y Huang, SC Clemens, SM Colman… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Lake Qinghai, located on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau north of the modern maximum
summer monsoon extent, is well situated to record northward advances of the summer …

Production of leaf wax n-alkanes across a tropical forest elevation transect

SJ Feakins, T Peters, MS Wu, A Shenkin, N Salinas… - Organic …, 2016 - Elsevier
Waxy compounds form the boundary layer of the living leaf and contribute biomarkers to
soils, and lake and marine sediments. Cataloging the variation in leaf wax traits between …

Dual isotope evidence for sedimentary integration of plant wax biomarkers across an Andes-Amazon elevation transect

SJ Feakins, MS Wu, C Ponton, V Galy… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Tropical montane regions tend to have high rates of precipitation, biological production,
erosion, and sediment export, which together move material off the landscape and toward …