Slope and climate variability control of erosion in the Andes of central Chile

Sébastien Carretier, Vincent Regard, Riccardo Vassallo, Germán Aguilar, Joseph Martinod, Rodrigo Riquelme, E. Pepin, Reynaldo Charrier, Gérard Hérail, Marcelo Farías,

Geology · 2012 · 128 citations · 32 references

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Climate and topography control millennial-scale mountain erosion, but their relative impacts remain matters of debate. Conflicting results may be explained by the influence of the erosion threshold and daily variability of runoff on long-term erosion. How

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