Late Cenozoic increases in accumulation rates of terrestrial sediment: How high climate change has affected erosion rates?

Article Abstract:

Accumulation rates of terrestrial sediment have increased in the past few million years both on and adjacent to continents, although not everywhere. Climate changes contributed to all increases in sedimentation, an obvious choice is the increase in both amplitudes and frequency of climate change in late Cenozoic time, which might have maintained a state of disequilibrium in which erosive processes continually adjusted to new conditions, as suggested for both this and other timescales.

Colorado, Paleoclimatology, Glacial erosion

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Climate over the past two millennia

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The evidence from proxy climate data and theoretical climate model simulations was evaluated to understand the nature and causes of climate variability over a time span of the past two millennia. The results of the analysis show that natural radiative forces causing large scale mean temperature changes and climate variability such as the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO) and El Nino/ Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

United States, Southern oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation

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Tectonics and climate of the Southern Central Andes

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Tectonics and climate variations in the southern central Andes, world's second largest plateau were studied. Contraction and range uplift, filling of basins and uplift of plateau increased gravitational stress in the orogen interior and it may have also affected atmospheric and moisture transport patterns in South America.

South America, Analysis, Natural history, Andes, Tectonics, Tectonics (Geology)

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