Erosion rates of alpine bedrock summit surfaces deduced from in situ 10Be and 26Al

Details Erosion rates of alpine bedrock summit surfaces deduced from in situ 10Be and 26Al Erosion rates of alpine bedrock summit surfaces deduced from in situ 10Be and 26Al

Aug 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997e%26psl.150..413s&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 150, Issue 3, p. 413-425.

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We have measured the concentration of in situ produced cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al from bare bedrock surfaces on summit flats in four western U.S. mountain ranges. The maximum mean bare-bedrock erosion rate from these alpine environments is 7.6 ± 3.9 m My-1. Individual measurements vary between 2 and 19 m My-1. These erosion rates are similar to previous cosmogenic radionuclide (CRN) erosion rates measured in other environments, except for those from extremely arid regions. This indicates that bare bedrock is not weathered into transportable material more rapidly in alpine environments than in other environments, even though frost weathering should be intense in these areas. Our CRN-deduced point measurements of bedrock erosion are slower than typical basin-averaged denudation rates (˜ 50 m My-1). If our measured CRN erosion rates are accurate indicators of the rate at which summit flats are lowered by erosion, then relief in the mountain ranges examined here is probably increasing.We develop a model of outcrop erosion to investigate the magnitude of errors associated with applying the steady-state erosion model to episodically eroding outcrops. Our simulations show that interpreting measurements with the steady-state erosion model can yield erosion rates which are either greater or less than the actual long-term mean erosion rate. While errors resulting from episodic erosion are potentially greater than both measurement and production rate errors for single samples, the mean value of many steady-state erosion rate measurements provides a much better estimate of the long-term erosion rate.

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