Minimal climatic control on erosion rates in the Sierra Nevada, California

Research Article| May 01, 2001 Minimal climatic control on erosion rates in the Sierra Nevada, California Clifford S. Riebe; Clifford S. Riebe 1Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-4767, USA Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar James W. Kirchner; James W. Kirchner 1Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-4767, USA Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Darryl E. Granger; Darryl E. Granger 2Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Robert C. Finkel Robert C. Finkel 3Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Clifford S. Riebe 1Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-4767, USA James W. Kirchner 1Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-4767, USA Darryl E. Granger 2Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA Robert C. Finkel 3Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA Publisher: Geological Society of America Received: 17 Aug 2000 Revision Received: 16 Jan 2001 Accepted: 29 Jan 2001 First Online: 02 Jun 2017 Online ISSN: 1943-2682 Print ISSN: 0091-7613 Geological Society of America Geology (2001) 29 (5): 447–450. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0447:MCCOER>2.0.CO;2 Article history Received: 17 Aug 2000 Revision Received: 16 Jan 2001 Accepted: 29 Jan 2001 First Online: 02 Jun 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Clifford S. Riebe, James W. Kirchner, Darryl E. Granger, Robert C. Finkel; Minimal climatic control on erosion rates in the Sierra Nevada, California. Geology 2001;; 29 (5): 447–450. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0447:MCCOER>2.0.CO;2 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGeology Search Advanced Search Abstract Climate is widely thought to regulate erosion rates, but the relationships among precipitation, temperature, and erosion rate have remained speculative, because long-term erosion rates have been difficult to measure. We used cosmogenic nuclides to measure long-term erosion rates at climatically diverse sites in the Sierra Nevada, California, spanning 20–180 cm/yr in annual precipitation and 4–15 °C in mean annual temperature. Average erosion rates vary by only 2.5 fold across these sites and are not correlated with climate, indicating that climate only weakly regulates nonglacial erosion rates in mountainous granitic terrain. You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.