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ROCK STARS: Johannes Walther, P. 12 ROCK STARS: Johannes Walther, p. 12 VOL. 21, NO. 8 A PUBLICATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA AUGUST 2011 Inside: L 2010–2011 Congressional Science Fellow Report: Interesting Times, Part 2, p. 18 L 2011 GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition Lunchtime Lecture Highlights, p. 22 L Groundwork: Revisiting the geoscience concept inventory: A call to the community, p. 26 Not Just Software. RockWare. For Over 28 Years. 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St. Joseph; however, R.L. Davis is at the University of New Haven. GSA Today regrets this error. Understanding Earth’s eroding surface with 10Be Eric W. Portenga, Dept. of Geology, University of Vermont, 180 rates at 87 sites around the world. Here, we compile, normalize, Colchester Ave., Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA, eporteng@ and compare published 10Be erosion rate data (n = 1599) in order uvm.edu; Paul R. Bierman, Dept. of Geology and Rubenstein to understand how, on a global scale, geologic erosion rates inte- School of the Environment and Natural Resources, University of grated over 103 to 106 years vary between climate zones, tectonic Vermont, 180 Colchester Ave., Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA, settings, and different rock types. [email protected] Drainage basins erode more quickly (mean = 218 m Myr−1; median = 54 m Myr−1) than outcrops (mean = 12 m Myr−1; median = 5.4 m Myr−1), likely reflecting the acceleration of rock weathering ABSTRACT rates under soil. Drainage basin and outcrop erosion rates both For more than a century, geologists have sought to measure the vary by climate zone, rock type, and tectonic setting. On the global distribution of erosion rates on Earth’s dynamic surface. Since the scale, environmental parameters (latitude, elevation, relief, mean mid-1980s, measurements of in situ 10Be, a cosmogenic radionu- annual precipitation and temperature, seismicity, basin slope and clide, have been used to estimate outcrop and basin-scale erosion area, and percent basin cover by vegetation) explain erosion rate Figure 1. Geographical distribution of cosmogenic 10Be erosion rate data (see supplemental data Tables DR1–DR3 [see text footnote 1]). (A) Location of studies compiled in this paper. (B) Distribution of outcrop samples and (C) drainage basin samples. Symbols sized to reflect the number of samples per study and colored to indicate relative erosion rate. Note: Citations included within this figure are listed with the supplemental data text. GSA Today, v. 21, no. 8, doi: 10.1130/G111A.1 4 AUGUST 2011, GSA TODAY variation better when they are combined in multiple regression and Steig, 1996; Brown et al., 1995; Granger et al., 1996; Nishiizumi analyses than when considered in bivariate relationships. Drainage et al., 1986; Schaller et al., 2001; Small et al., 1997). basin erosion rates are explained well by considering these envi- The method relies on the observation that cosmic rays interact ronmental parameters (R 2 = 0.60); mean basin slope is the most with Earth’s surface, producing 10Be, an otherwise exceptionally powerful regressor. Outcrop erosion rates are less well explained rare isotope. The production of 10Be occurs predominantly within (R 2 = 0.32), and no one parameter dominates. The variance of ero- a few meters of Earth’s surface and decreases exponentially with sion rates is better explained when subpopulations of the global depth. Thus, the concentration of 10Be in outcropping rock or in data are analyzed.
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