Chemical weathering as a mechanism for the climatic control of bedrock river incision

Brendan P. Murphy (), Joel P. L. Johnson, Nicole M. Gasparini and Leonard S. Sklar
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Brendan P. Murphy: University of Texas at Austin
Joel P. L. Johnson: University of Texas at Austin
Nicole M. Gasparini: Tulane University
Leonard S. Sklar: San Francisco State University

Nature, 2016, vol. 532, issue 7598, 223-227

Abstract: Climate-dependent chemical weathering is found to control the erodibility of bedrock-floored rivers across a rainfall gradient on the Kohala Peninsula, Hawai‘i; river erosion models that incorporate this process could improve the assessment of climatic controls from topographic data and the understanding of climatic feedbacks in landscape evolution models.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/nature17449

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