Slopes: solute processes and landforms

Abstract This chapter reviews research on solutes by fluvial geomorphologists in the period 1965–2000; growing links with biogeochemical are emphasized later chapter. Brief reference is necessarily made to some from before and after study period. In relation solutes, early sought relate short-term process observations long-term landform evolution. However, very quickly, moved into much more applied fields, less concerned landforms processes. The drainage basin became focus of research, a wide range interest including nutrient loss agricultural forested landscapes dissolved organic carbon export peatlands. particular, terrestrial–aquatic ecotone for emphasizing distinctive processes operating riparian zone their contribution river-water protection land-derived pollutants. By end period, scale geomorphology had been greatly transformed what it 1965, providing broader field biogeochemistry, as well an ongoing Earth surface landforms.