Late Cenozoic increase in accumulation rates of terrestrial sediment: How might climate change have affected erosion rates?

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue , 2004, Pages 67-89

  Molnar, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacial erosion; Orbital controls of climatic change; Paleoclimate; Processes of erosion; Uplift of mountain ranges

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

ACCUMULATION RATES; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; GEOMORPHIC PROCESSES; TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE FORCING; EROSION RATE; ORBITAL FORCING; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSIT;

EID: 3042633642     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.32.091003.143456     Document Type: Review

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