Larsen, IJAlmond, PeterEger, AStone, JOMontgomery, DRMalcolm, BJ2016-11-152014-01-162014-02-07Larsen et al. (2014). Rapid soil production and weathering in the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Science, 343(6171), 637-640. doi 10.1126/science.12449080036-8075304CP (isidoc)24436184 (pubmed)https://hdl.handle.net/10182/7589Evaluating conflicting theories about the influence of mountains on carbon dioxide cycling and climate requires understanding weathering fluxes from tectonically uplifting landscapes. The lack of soil production and weathering rate measurements in Earth's most rapidly uplifting mountains has made it difficult to determine whether weathering rates increase or decline in response to rapid erosion. Beryllium-10 concentrations in soils from the western Southern Alps, New Zealand, demonstrate that soil is produced from bedrock more rapidly than previously recognized, at rates up to 2.5 millimeters per year. Weathering intensity data further indicate that soil chemical denudation rates increase proportionally with erosion rates. These high weathering rates support the view that mountains play a key role in global-scale chemical weathering and thus have potentially important implications for the global carbon cycle.pp.637-640Print-Electronicen© 2016 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.soil productionsoilSouthern AlpsNew ZealandweatheringmountainserosionAlpine FaultBerylliumRadioisotopesSoilAltitudeWeatherNew ZealandCarbon CycleJournal Article10.1126/science.1244908Closed file - view via publisher website using DOIANZSRC::0503 Soil SciencesANZSRC::050304 Soil Chemistry (excl. Carbon Sequestration Science)ANZSRC::050305 Soil PhysicsANZSRC::050302 Land Capability and Soil DegradationANZSRC::0403 GeologyANZSRC::040313 TectonicsANZSRC::0401 Atmospheric SciencesANZSRC::040105 Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes)1095-9203