Earth is (mostly) flat: Apportionment of the flux of continental sediment over millennial time scales: COMMENT | Zendy

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Earth is (mostly) flat: Apportionment of the flux of continental sediment over millennial time scales: COMMENT

Author(s) -

Jonathan A. Warrick,

Yee Cheng Lim,

Desmond E. Walling,

Robert Wasson,

James P. M. Syvitski,

R. E. Aalto

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

geology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.609

H-Index - 215

eISSN - 1943-2682

pISSN - 0091-7613

DOI - 10.1130/g34846c.1

Subject(s) - apportionment , geology , flux (metallurgy) , sediment , earth (classical element) , scale (ratio) , earth science , geomorphology , geography , cartography , physics , mathematical physics , materials science , metallurgy , political science , law

Recent synthesis of 10Be-derived denudation rates by [Willenbring et al. (2013)][1] suggests that the “flat” areas of the world, those with average slopes of <∼100 m/km and representing ∼90% of Earth’s land surface, have adequately high rates of denudation to produce most of the sediment

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