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Information - GM2 Down from the mountains: quantifying erosion and its forcing
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Recent technological advances, especially in cosmogenic radionuclide analysis and low-temperature thermochronology have revolutionized understanding of Earth surface processes. We can now measure past and present erosion rates, and track the development of topography with confidence. This has opened new perspectives on landscape evolution, sediment routing and supply to basins, crustal deformation, and the interplay of tectonic, climatic and geomorphic processes, but also poses new scientific and methodological challenges.
In this session we seek a broad, interdisciplinary approach to issues such as the nature and coupling of dominant erosion processes on all time scales; the link between erosion, sediment transport and basin fill; the stochastic interplay of erosion, climate and tectonics; and the nature and causes of secular geomorphological and geodynamic trends. We also aim to address challenges including the acquisition of (process-specific) erosion and exhumation data on multiple time scales for the same location, and the integration of complementary analytical techniques; the optimization of the temporal and spatial resolution of erosion data, and the sensitivity of analytical techniques and sampling strategies; the distillation of constraints on the history of relief from geochronological data; the use of denudation patterns in the analysis of geological problems; and the development of techniques for multidimensional interpolation of sparse rate and age data. Therefore, we invite geomorphological, geophysical, geochemical, and climatological contributions that quantify and link erosion, landscape change, sediment transfer, basin fill, crustal deformation and climate.
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