Hydrological partitioning in the critical zone: Recent advances and opportunities for develo** transferable understanding of water cycle dynamics

PD Brooks, J Chorover, Y Fan… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrology is an integrative discipline linking the broad array of water‐related research with
physical, ecological, and social sciences. The increasing breadth of hydrological research …

Multiscale geophysical imaging of the critical zone

AD Parsekian, K Singha, BJ Minsley… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Details of Earth's shallow subsurface—a key component of the critical zone (CZ)—are
largely obscured because making direct observations with sufficient density to capture …

Hillslope hydrology in global change research and earth system modeling

Y Fan, M Clark, DM Lawrence… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Earth System Models (ESMs) are essential tools for understanding and predicting
global change, but they cannot explicitly resolve hillslope‐scale terrain structures that …

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 …

Geophysical imaging reveals topographic stress control of bedrock weathering

J St. Clair, S Moon, WS Holbrook, JT Perron, CS Riebe… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Bedrock fracture systems facilitate weathering, allowing fresh mineral surfaces to interact
with corrosive waters and biota from Earth's surface, while simultaneously promoting …

A unified initiative to harness Earth's microbiomes

AP Alivisatos, MJ Blaser, EL Brodie, M Chun, JL Dangl… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Despite their centrality to life on Earth, we know little about how microbes interact with each
other, their hosts, or their environment. Although DNA sequencing technologies have …

Chemical reactions, porosity, and microfracturing in shale during weathering: The effect of erosion rate

X Gu, DM Rempe, WE Dietrich, AJ West, TC Lin… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The rate of chemical weathering has been observed to increase with the rate of physical
erosion in published comparisons of many catchments, but the mechanisms that couple …

Links between physical and chemical weathering inferred from a 65-m-deep borehole through Earth's critical zone

WS Holbrook, V Marcon, AR Bacon, SL Brantley… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
As bedrock weathers to regolith–defined here as weathered rock, saprolite, and soil–
porosity grows, guides fluid flow, and liberates nutrients from minerals. Though vital to …

Critical zone structure under a granite ridge inferred from drilling and three‐dimensional seismic refraction data

BA Flinchum, W Steven Holbrook… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Observing the critical zone (CZ) below the top few meters of readily excavated soil is
challenging yet crucial to understanding Earth surface processes. Near‐surface geophysical …

Pleistocene periglacial processes and landforms, mid-Atlantic region, eastern United States

DJ Merritts, MA Rahnis - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Just as glaciers worldwide left a record of past advances and retreats that shifted latitudinally
in response to oscillating Quaternary climate changes, so too have cold-climate conditions …