The critical role of climate and saprolite weathering in landscape evolution

JL Dixon, AM Heimsath… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Landscapes evolve in response to external forces, such as tectonics and climate, that
influence surface processes of erosion and weathering. Internal feedbacks between erosion …

Climate-driven processes of hillslope weathering

JL Dixon, AM Heimsath, J Kaste, R Amundson - Geology, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Climate controls erosion and weathering on soil-mantled landscapes through diverse
processes that have remained difficult to disentangle due to their complex interactions. We …

Chemical weathering response to tectonic forcing: A soils perspective from the San Gabriel Mountains, California

JL Dixon, AS Hartshorn, AM Heimsath… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
What controls the chemical weathering of soils in tectonically active landscapes? Recent
field and modeling studies suggest that tectonic forcing and associated increases in erosion …

Coupling chemical weathering with soil production across soil‐mantled landscapes

BC Burke, AM Heimsath… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Soil‐covered upland landscapes constitute a critical part of the habitable world. Our
understanding of how they evolve as a function of different climatic, tectonic and geological …

[HTML][HTML] Soils as pacemakers and limiters of global silicate weathering

JL Dixon, F von Blanckenburg - Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 2012 - Elsevier
The weathering and erosion processes that produce and destroy regolith are widely
recognized to be positively correlated across diverse landscapes. However, conceptual and …

Quantification of chemical weathering rates across an actively eroding hillslope

EG Green, WE Dietrich, JF Banfield - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2006 - Elsevier
Chemical weathering rates for landscapes are difficult to quantify because the timescales
over which weathering occurs are often unknown. In this study, we use timescales defined …

Long-term rates of chemical weathering and physical erosion from cosmogenic nuclides and geochemical mass balance

CS Riebe, JW Kirchner, RC Finkel - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2003 - Elsevier
Quantifying long-term rates of chemical weathering and physical erosion is important for
understanding the long-term evolution of soils, landscapes, and Earth's climate. Here we …

Tectonic and climatic controls on silicate weathering

AJ West, A Galy, M Bickle - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2005 - Elsevier
Understanding the controls on chemical weathering, especially of silicate minerals, remains
a major challenge, despite its importance in controlling the evolution of the Earth's surface …

Shaping post-orogenic landscapes by climate and chemical weathering

OA Chadwick, JJ Roering, AM Heimsath… - …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The spacing of hills and valleys reflects the competition between disturbance-driven (or
diffusive) transport on hillslopes and concentrative (or advective) transport in valleys …

Erosional and climatic effects on long-term chemical weathering rates in granitic landscapes spanning diverse climate regimes

CS Riebe, JW Kirchner, RC Finkel - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2004 - Elsevier
We used cosmogenic nuclide and geochemical mass balance methods to measure long-
term rates of chemical weathering and total denudation in granitic landscapes in diverse …