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 …

Advances in global bioavailable strontium isoscapes

CP Bataille, BE Crowley, MJ Wooller… - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Strontium isotope ratios (87 Sr/86 Sr) are a popular tool in provenance applications
in archeology, forensics, paleoecology, and environmental sciences. Using bioavailable 87 …

Earth's water may have been inherited from material similar to enstatite chondrite meteorites

L Piani, Y Marrocchi, T Rigaudier, LG Vacher… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The origin of Earth's water remains unknown. Enstatite chondrite (EC) meteorites have
similar isotopic composition to terrestrial rocks and thus may be representative of the …

Water quality assessment using NSFWQI, OIP and multivariate techniques of Ganga River system, Uttarakhand, India

G Matta, A Nayak, A Kumar, P Kumar - Applied Water Science, 2020 - Springer
Ganga River water is very much stressed with the rapidly increasing population, climate
change and water pollution that increase domestic, agricultural and industrial needs. This …

Riverine Li isotope fractionation in the Amazon River basin controlled by the weathering regimes

M Dellinger, J Gaillardet, J Bouchez, D Calmels… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
We report Li isotope composition (δ 7 Li) of river-borne dissolved and solid material in the
largest River system on Earth, the Amazon River basin, to characterize Li isotope …

Provenance versus weathering control on the composition of tropical river mud (southern Africa)

E Garzanti, M Padoan, M Setti, A López-Galindo… - Chemical …, 2014 - Elsevier
This study presents an integrated mineralogical–geochemical database on fine-grained
sediments transported by all major rivers of southern Africa, including the Zambezi …

[HTML][HTML] Global chemical weathering and associated P-release—The role of lithology, temperature and soil properties

J Hartmann, N Moosdorf, R Lauerwald, M Hinderer… - Chemical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Because there remains a lack of knowledge about the spatially explicit distribution of
chemical weathering rates at the global scale, a model that considers prominent first-order …

Co-variation of silicate, carbonate and sulfide weathering drives CO2 release with erosion

A Bufe, N Hovius, R Emberson, JKC Rugenstein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Global climate is thought to be modulated by the supply of minerals to Earth's surface.
Whereas silicate weathering removes carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere …

An integrative conceptualization of floodplain storage

E Wohl - Reviews of Geophysics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Floodplains perform diverse functions, including attenuation of fluxes of water, solutes, and
particulate material. Critical details of floodplain storage including magnitude, duration, and …

The classification of CM and CR chondrites using bulk H, C and N abundances and isotopic compositions

CMOD Alexander, KT Howard, R Bowden… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
Here we show that bulk H, C and N elemental and isotopic analyses can be used to classify
CM and CR chondrites. These meteorites in both groups form well-defined trends in plots of …