Worldwide acceleration of mountain erosion under a cooling climate

Frédéric Herman (), Diane Seward, Pierre G. Valla, Andrew Carter, Barry Kohn, Sean D. Willett and Todd A. Ehlers
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Frédéric Herman: Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, 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
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

Nature, 2013, vol. 504, issue 7480, 423-426

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.

Date: 2013
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