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Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-781-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-781-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
Short communication
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01 Dec 2017
Short communication |  | 01 Dec 2017

Short communication: Massive erosion in monsoonal central India linked to late Holocene land cover degradation

Liviu Giosan, Camilo Ponton, Muhammed Usman, Jerzy Blusztajn, Dorian Q. Fuller, Valier Galy, Negar Haghipour, Joel E. Johnson, Cameron McIntyre, Lukas Wacker, and Timothy I. Eglinton

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A reconstruction of erosion in the core monsoon zone of India provides unintuitive but fundamental insights: in contrast to semiarid regions that experience enhanced erosion during erratic rain events, the monsoon is annual and acts as a veritable erosional pump accelerating when the land cover is minimal. The existence of such a monsoon erosional pump promises to reconcile conflicting views on the land–sea sediment and carbon transfer as well as the monsoon evolution on longer timescales.
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