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Worldwide acceleration of mountain erosion under a cooling climate

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  • Frédéric Herman

    (Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Sonneggstrasse 6, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland)

  • Diane Seward

    (School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand)

  • Pierre G. Valla

    (Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Sonneggstrasse 6, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland)

  • Andrew Carter

    (Birkbeck University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX, UK)

  • Barry Kohn

    (School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia)

  • Sean D. Willett

    (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Sonneggstrasse 6, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland)

  • Todd A. Ehlers

    (University of Tübingen, Wilhelmstrasse 56, D-72074 Tübingen, Germany)

Abstract

To establish what effect the Late Cenozoic cooling climate shift might have had on global erosion, inverse modelling of thermochronometric ages is used to show that erosion rates are increased by cooling, especially in glaciated mountain ranges.

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  • Frédéric Herman & Diane Seward & Pierre G. Valla & Andrew Carter & Barry Kohn & Sean D. Willett & Todd A. Ehlers, 2013. "Worldwide acceleration of mountain erosion under a cooling climate," Nature, Nature, vol. 504(7480), pages 423-426, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:504:y:2013:i:7480:d:10.1038_nature12877
    DOI: 10.1038/nature12877
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