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Mountain glaciation drives rapid oxidation of rock-bound organic carbon (2017)
Journal Article
Horan, K., Hilton, R., Selby, D., Ottley, C., Gröcke, D., Hicks, M., & Burton, K. (2017). Mountain glaciation drives rapid oxidation of rock-bound organic carbon. Science Advances, 3(10), Article e1701107. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701107

Over millions of years, the oxidation of organic carbon contained within sedimentary rocks is one of the main sources of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, yet the controls on this emission remain poorly constrained. We use rhenium to track the oxidat... Read More about Mountain glaciation drives rapid oxidation of rock-bound organic carbon.

Earthquakes drive focused denudation along a tectonically active mountain front (2017)
Journal Article
Li, G., West, A., Densmore, A., Jin, Z., Zhang, F., Wang, J., …Hilton, R. (2017). Earthquakes drive focused denudation along a tectonically active mountain front. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 472, 253-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.04.040

Earthquakes cause widespread landslides that can increase erosional fluxes observed over years to decades. However, the impact of earthquakes on denudation over the longer timescales relevant to orogenic evolution remains elusive. Here we assess eros... Read More about Earthquakes drive focused denudation along a tectonically active mountain front.

Erosion of organic carbon from the Andes and its affects on ecosystem carbon dioxide balance (2017)
Journal Article
Clark, K., Hilton, R., West, A., Robles Caceres, A., Grocke, D., Marthews, T., …Malhi, Y. (2017). Erosion of organic carbon from the Andes and its affects on ecosystem carbon dioxide balance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122(3), 449-469. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016jg003615

Productive forests of the Andes are subject to high erosion rates that supply to the Amazon River sediment and carbon from both recently photosynthesized biomass and geological sources. Despite this recognition, the source and discharge of particulat... Read More about Erosion of organic carbon from the Andes and its affects on ecosystem carbon dioxide balance.