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DOI | 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.010 |
Chemical weathering response to tectonic forcing: A soils perspective from the San Gabriel Mountains, California | |
Dixon, Jean L.; Hartshorn, Anthony S.; Heimsath, Arjun M.; DiBiase, Roman A.; Whipple, Kelin X. | |
通讯作者 | Dixon, Jean L. |
来源期刊 | EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS |
ISSN | 0012-821X |
出版年 | 2012 |
卷号 | 323页码:40-49 |
英文摘要 | 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 rates may either promote or hinder soil chemical weathering. These competing trajectories are dependent on two primary controls: the availability of fresh minerals and their residence time on the landsurface. Here, we explore rates and extents of soil weathering in the San Gabriel Mountains of California, where previous work has measured clear tectonic fingerprints on rates of long term exhumation, hillslope erosion and landscape morphology. We quantify chemical weathering across this landscape by elemental analysis of soils, saprolites and bedrock on six sites that bracket the low-gradient hillslopes of the relict upland plateau and the high-gradient hillslopes at the margins of the tectonically-driven incising landscape. Average chemical depletion fractions, which measure weathering losses from soil relative to unweathered parent material, decrease with increasing elevation and decreasing temperature, reflecting a combination of climate influence and potential dust inputs from the Mojave Desert Weathering fluxes from non-dust-affected sites with similar elevations, climates and lithology correlate with both erosion rates and hillslope gradient On low-gradient hillslopes (<25 degrees), weathering rates increase with increasing erosion rates, reflecting the influence of mineral supply. However, on high-gradient hillslopes (>25 degrees), weathering intensities and rates both decrease as erosion rates increase and soils thin. At the highest denudation rates (>300 t km(-2) y(-1)), saprolite production is outpaced, and soils are produced directly from fractured rock. These patterns are consistent with those predicted by a previously published model for denudation-weathering relationships based on mineral weathering kinetics. Variable weathering extents in soils indicate that weathering in the SGM is largely kinetically limited. This study is the first to quantify decreases in both rates and extents of soil chemical weathering with increasing erosion rates, and suggests tectonic uplift in rapidly eroding and incising landscapes may not stimulate increased silicate weathering. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
英文关键词 | erosion chemical weathering soil production kinetic limitation tectonics |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000302051600005 |
WOS关键词 | SOUTHERN-CALIFORNIA ; PHYSICAL EROSION ; DENUDATION RATES ; SOURCE LITHOLOGY ; CLIMATE ; DEPOSITION ; MODEL ; LANDSCAPE ; EVOLUTION ; HILLSLOPE |
WOS类目 | Geochemistry & Geophysics |
WOS研究方向 | Geochemistry & Geophysics |
来源机构 | Arizona State University |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/171964 |
作者单位 | Arizona State Univ, Sch Earth & Space Explorat, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dixon, Jean L.,Hartshorn, Anthony S.,Heimsath, Arjun M.,et al. Chemical weathering response to tectonic forcing: A soils perspective from the San Gabriel Mountains, California[J]. Arizona State University,2012,323:40-49. |
APA | Dixon, Jean L.,Hartshorn, Anthony S.,Heimsath, Arjun M.,DiBiase, Roman A.,&Whipple, Kelin X..(2012).Chemical weathering response to tectonic forcing: A soils perspective from the San Gabriel Mountains, California.EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS,323,40-49. |
MLA | Dixon, Jean L.,et al."Chemical weathering response to tectonic forcing: A soils perspective from the San Gabriel Mountains, California".EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 323(2012):40-49. |
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