EP13E:
Advances in Understanding Sediment Production, Erosion, and Weathering in the Critical Zone I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Ashlee Laura Denton Dere, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States, Melissa A Foster, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Claire E Lukens, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Primary Conveners:  Claire E Lukens, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Co-conveners:  Ashlee Laura Denton Dere, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States and Melissa A Foster, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Melissa A Foster, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Weathering, Soil Production, and Erosion Across Climatic and Tectonic Gradients
Kevin P Norton, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand and Isaac J Larsen, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
1:55 PM
 
Landslides as weathering reactors; links between physical erosion and weathering in rapidly eroding mountain belts
Robert Emberson1, Niels Hovius1 and Albert Galy2, (1)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)CRPG Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France
2:10 PM
 
Climate control on soil age and weathering thresholds in young, post-glacial soils of New Zealand
Jean L Dixon1,2, Oliver Chadwick2 and Peter Vitousek3, (1)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Biological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
2:25 PM
 
Testing for supply-limited chemical erosion in field measurements of soil production and chemical depletion
Ken Ferrier, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, Clifford S Riebe, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, William Jesse Hahm, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States and James W Kirchner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2:40 PM
 
The Role of Diffusive Hillslopes in Landscape Evolution: An Experimental Investigation
Kristin E Sweeney, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, Joshua J Roering, Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, Chris Ellis, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Arvind Singh, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
2:55 PM
 
Rates of tree throw in Appalachian shale landscapes
Timothy S White, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Ashlee Laura Denton Dere, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States
3:10 PM
 
Weathering Rinds and Soil Development on Basaltic Andesite, Guadeloupe
Peter B Sak1, Mariah Murphy1, Lin Ma2, Jacqueline Engel2, Yvette Pereyra2, Jerome Gaillardet3 and Susan L Brantley4, (1)Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, United States, (2)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (3)Institute de Physique d Globe Paris, Paris, France, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
3:25 PM
 
Age and weathering rate of sediments in small catchments: the role of hillslope erosion
Anthony Dosseto, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, Heather L Buss, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom and François Chabaux, LHyGeS-UMR7517, EOST, INSU/CNRS, Strasbourg, France