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 …

Substantial decrease in CO2 emissions from Chinese inland waters due to global change

L Ran, DE Butman, TJ Battin, X Yang, M Tian… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Carbon dioxide (CO2) evasion from inland waters is an important component of the global
carbon cycle. However, it remains unknown how global change affects CO2 emissions over …

Source, transport and fate of terrestrial organic carbon from Yangtze River during a large flood event: insights from multiple-isotopes (δ13C, δ15N, Δ14C) and …

X Sun, D Fan, P Cheng, L Hu, X Sun, Z Guo… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change-triggered episodic and intensive flood events are increasing in frequency
globally; these events play a disproportionate role in the carbon cycle at land-ocean …

Sediment resuspension accelerates the recycling of terrestrial organic carbon at a large river‐coastal ocean interface

X Sun, L Hu, D Fan, H Wang, Z Yang… - Global Biogeochemical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread sediment resuspension and transport processes on continental margins can
modify deposits and influence the preservation of particulate organic carbon (POC) in …

[HTML][HTML] Organic carbon burial by river meandering partially offsets bank erosion carbon fluxes in a discontinuous permafrost floodplain

MM Douglas, GK Li, WW Fischer… - Earth Surface …, 2022 - esurf.copernicus.org
Arctic river systems erode permafrost in their banks and mobilize particulate organic carbon
(OC). Meandering rivers can entrain particulate OC from permafrost many meters below the …

[PDF][PDF] Real-time and dynamic estimation of CO2 emissions from China's lakes and reservoirs

K Sun, J Jia, S Wang, Y Gao - The Innovation Geoscience, 2023 - researchgate.net
Lakes and reservoirs act as active carbon (C) reactors and regulators. Both play a crucial
terrestrial ecosystem C balance role via carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange processes across …

The sources and seasonal fluxes of particulate organic carbon in the Yellow River

Y Qu, Z Jin, J Wang, Y Wang, J Xiao… - Earth Surface …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Yellow River transports a large amount of sediment and particulate organic
carbon (POC), which is thought to mainly derive from erosion of the Chinese Loess Plateau …

The role of earthquake-induced landslides in erosion and weathering from active mountain ranges: Progress and perspectives

Z Jin, RG Hilton, AJ West, GK Li, F Zhang… - Science China Earth …, 2021 - Springer
Earthquakes play a fundamental role in the evolution of Earth's topography through co-
seismic uplift and subsidence, as well as erosion through widespread landslides induced by …

Coal fly ash is a major carbon flux in the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) basin

GK Li, WW Fischer, MP Lamb… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Fly ash—the residuum of coal burning—contains a considerable amount of fossilized
particulate organic carbon (FOCash) that remains after high-temperature combustion. Fly …

Variations in organic carbon sourcing along a trans-Himalayan river determined by a Bayesian mixing approach

J Menges, N Hovius, C Andermann, M Lupker… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Rivers transfer particulate organic carbon (POC) from eroding mountains into geological
sinks. Organic carbon source composition and selective mobilization have been shown to …