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 …

[HTML][HTML] Application of upscaling methods for fluid flow and mass transport in multi-scale heterogeneous media: A critical review

X Zhang, F Ma, S Yin, CD Wallace, MR Soltanian, Z Dai… - Applied energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Physical and biogeochemical heterogeneity dramatically impacts fluid flow and reactive
solute transport behaviors in geological formations across scales. From micro pores to …

How temperature-dependent silicate weathering acts as Earth's geological thermostat

SL Brantley, A Shaughnessy, MI Lebedeva… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Earth's climate may be stabilized over millennia by solubilization of atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) as minerals weather, but the temperature sensitivity of this thermostat is …

CO2 drawdown from weathering is maximized at moderate erosion rates

A Bufe, JKC Rugenstein, N Hovius - Science, 2024 - science.org
Uplift and erosion modulate the carbon cycle over geologic timescales by exposing minerals
to chemical weathering. However, the erosion sensitivity of mineral weathering remains …

A global temperature control of silicate weathering intensity

K Deng, S Yang, Y Guo - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Silicate weathering as an important negative feedback can regulate the Earth's climate over
time, but much debate concerns its response strength to each climatic factor and its …

Terrestrial carbon inputs to inland waters: A current synthesis of estimates and uncertainty

TW Drake, PA Raymond… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, inland waters receive a significant but ill‐defined quantity of terrestrial carbon (C).
When summed, the contemporary estimates for the three possible fates of C in inland waters …

Global CO2 Consumption by Silicate Rock Chemical Weathering: Its Past and Future

S Zhang, X Bai, C Zhao, Q Tan, G Luo, J Wang… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Silicate rock weathering maintains a stable and long‐term absorption of CO2. However, the
magnitude, spatial pattern, and evolution characteristics of global silicate rock weathering …

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 …

The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater

T Gleeson, KM Befus, S Jasechko, E Luijendijk… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Groundwater is important for energy and food security, human health and ecosystems. The
time since groundwater was recharged—or groundwater age—can be important for diverse …

The impact of vegetation on meandering rivers

A Ielpi, MGA Lapôtre, MR Gibling… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The Palaeozoic evolution of land plants revolutionized river geomorphology. However, the
relationships between biotic forcing and channel dynamics are still debated and, as such …