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Climate changes and the formation of fluvial terraces in central Amazonia inferred from landscape evolution modeling
Ariel Henrique do Prado
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, 3012,
Switzerland
Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Renato Paes de Almeida
Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Cristiano Padalino Galeazzi
Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 21990, Republic of Korea
Victor Sacek
Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências
Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Fritz Schlunegger
Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, 3012,
Switzerland
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Our work is focused on describing how and why the terrace levels of central Amazonia were formed during the last 100 000 years. We propose to address this question through a landscape evolution numerical model. Our results show that terrace levels at lower elevation were established in response to dry–wet climate changes and the older terrace levels at higher elevations most likely formed in response to a previously higher elevation of the regional base level.
Our work is focused on describing how and why the terrace levels of central Amazonia were formed...
