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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-247-2023
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Research article
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29 Mar 2023
Research article |
| 29 Mar 2023
| 29 Mar 2023
Erosion and weathering in carbonate regions reveal climatic and tectonic drivers of carbonate landscape evolution
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Earth Surface Geochemistry, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Sean F. Gallen
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
David Helman
Department of Soil and Water Sciences, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
The Advanced School for Environmental Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Controls on long-term denudation rate of carbonate terrains in the Eastern Mediterranean A. Hashemi et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108351
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Short summary
We compile data on carbonate denudation, the sum of mechanical erosion and chemical weathering, from cosmogenic nuclides and use them in conjunction with weathering data to constrain the partitioning of denudation into erosion and weathering. We show how carbonate erosion and weathering respond to different climatic and tectonic conditions and find that variations in denudation partitioning can be used to explain the vastly different morphology of carbonate landscapes on Earth.
We compile data on carbonate denudation, the sum of mechanical erosion and chemical weathering,...
