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 …

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 …

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 …

Strong tectonic and weak climatic control of long-term chemical weathering rates

CS Riebe, JW Kirchner, DE Granger… - Geology, 2001 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The relationships among climate, physical erosion, and chemical weathering have remained
uncertain, because long-term chemical weathering rates have been difficult to measure …

Kinetically limited weathering at low denudation rates in semiarid climatic conditions

J Schoonejans, V Vanacker, S Opfergelt… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Biogeochemical cycling within the Critical Zone depends on the interactions between
minerals and fluids controlling chemical weathering and physical erosion rates. In this study …

Weathering profiles, mass-balance analysis, and rates of solute loss: Linkages between weathering and erosion in a small, steep catchment

SP Anderson, WE Dietrich… - Geological Society of …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In a headwater catchment in the Oregon Coast Range, we find that solid-phase mass losses
due to chemical weathering are equivalent in the bedrock and the soil. However, the long …

Thickness of the chemical weathering zone and implications for erosional and climatic drivers of weathering and for carbon-cycle feedbacks

AJ West - Geology, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Quantitative understanding of variability in weathering fluxes on the modern Earth is limited
because little is known about where the most important weathering reactions take place …

Sharp decrease in long-term chemical weathering rates along an altitudinal transect

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 physical erosion across a steep climatic gradient in …

[PDF][PDF] The relationship between tectonic uplift and chemical weathering rates in the Washington Cascades: field measurements and model predictions

MT Hren, GE Hilley, CP Chamberlain - American Journal of Science, 2007 - ajsonline.org
Tectonic uplift is one of the key factors controlling the supply of material to weathering
environments. At present however, there is debate about whether tectonics or climate plays …

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 …