Niemi et al.(2005)による〔『Effects of bedrock landslides on cosmogenically determined erosion rates』(480p)から〕

『宇宙線による作用を用いて決定された浸食速度に対する基盤岩の地すべりの影響』


Abstract
 The successful quantification of long-term erosion rates underpins our understanding of landscape formation, the topographic evolution of mountain ranges, and the mass balance within active orogens. The measurement of in situ produced cosmogenic radionuclides (CRNs) in fluvial and alluvial sediments is perhaps the method with the greatest ability to provide such long-term erosion rates. Although deep-seated bedrock landsliding is an important erosional process in active orogens, its effect on CRN-derived erosion rates is largely unquantified. We present a numerical simulation of cosmogenic nuclide production and distribution in landslide-dominated catchments to address the effect of bedrock landsliding on erosion rates. Results of the simulation indicate that the temporal stability of erosion rates determined from CRN concentrations in sediment decreases with increased ratios of landsliding to bedrock weathering rates within a given catchment area, and that as the frequency of landsliding increases, larger catchment areas must be sampled in order to accurately evaluate long-term erosion rates. In addition, results of this simulation suggest that sediment sampling for CRNs is the appropriate method for determining long-term erosion rates in regions dominated by mass-wasting processes, whereas bedrock surface sampling for CRNs may generally underestimate long-term erosion rates. Response times of CRN concentrations to changes in erosion rate indicate that climatically driven cycles of erosion may be detected, but that complete equilibration of CRN concentrations to new erosional conditions may take tens of thousands of years. Comparison of simulated CRN-derived erosion rates with a new data set of such rates from the Nepalese Himalaya underscore the conclusions drawn from the model results.

Keywords: landslides; cosmogenic nuclides; erosion rates; modeling』

1. Introduction
2. Numerical simulation
 2.1. Cosmogenic nuclide production
 2.2. Model initialization
 2.3. Landslide simulation
  2.3.1. Cosmogenic ingrowth and decay
  2.3.2. Bedrock weathering
  2.3.3. Landslides
  2.3.4. Surface concentration
 2.4. Data extraction
  2.4.1. Surface exposure age dating
  2.4.2. Stream sediment sampling
  2.4.3. Simplifications and assumptions
3. Model results
 3.1. Simulated sediment erosion rates
 3.2. Simulated bedrock erosion rates
 3.3. Response of CRN-derived erosion rates to changes in rates of mass wasting processes
4. Comparison of simulation results of CRN erosion rates to CRN erosion rates from the Nepalese Himalaya
 4.1. Detrital CRN erosion rate in the Khudi catchment
 4.2. Bedrock and small-order catchment CRN erosion rates in the Khudi catchment
  4.2.1. CRN erosion rates from small catchments
  4.2.2. CRN erosion rates from bedrock samples
5. Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgements
Appendix A
 Governing equations
 Rate of landsliding
 Landslide population and distribution
 Cosmogenic nuclide concentration in eroded material
References


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