Earth is (mostly) flat: Apportionment of the flux of continental sediment over millennial time scales: COMMENT
Geology
By: J.A. Warrick, John D. Milliman, D.E. Walling, R.J. Wasson, J.P.M. Syvitski, and Stephen F. Arno
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Abstract
Recent synthesis of 10Be-derived denudation rates by Willenbring et al. (2013) 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 transported to the world’s oceans. This finding is based on the product of interpolated denudation rates (L/T) over the world’s drainage areas (L2) using landscape slope as the controlling variable. We suggest that these findings are incorrect on several grounds.
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Warrick, J., Milliman, J., Walling, D., Wasson, R., Syvitski, J., Arno, S.F., 2014, Earth is (mostly) flat: Apportionment of the flux of continental sediment over millennial time scales: COMMENT: Geology, v. 42, no. 1, p. e316-e316, https://doi.org/10.1130/G34846C.1.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Earth is (mostly) flat: Apportionment of the flux of continental sediment over millennial time scales: COMMENT |
| Series title | Geology |
| DOI | 10.1130/G34846C.1 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 2014 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Geological Society of America |
| Contributing office(s) | Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| Description | 1 p. |
| First page | e316 |
| Last page | e316 |