A signature of transience in bedrock river incision rates over timescales of 104–107 years

Noah J. Finnegan (), Rina Schumer and Seth Finnegan
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Noah J. Finnegan: University of California Santa Cruz
Rina Schumer: Desert Research Institute
Seth Finnegan: University of California Berkeley

Nature, 2014, vol. 505, issue 7483, 391-394

Abstract: Rates of river incision into bedrock are thought to reflect rates of rock uplift as well as the strength of climatic forcing of erosion over time, but here incision rate is shown to depend on the measurement interval.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/nature12913

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