In my opinion, the authors have correctly addressed all the (minor) points made by the reviewers. The manuscript (revised version) is ready to be published as is.

Considering the positive reviews and recommendation from the Associate Editor, I am pleased to confirm acceptance of this paper for publication in Earth Surface Dynamics. Thank you for contributing your interesting work to the journal.

Below I list a few minor grammatical and typographical notes from my reading through the revised text; these fixes can be made either now (when you are asked up upload files for production) or during the page proof stage (and they may well be caught by the copy editors in any case).

Line 56 -- Successful is misspelled
Line 57 -- use a comma, not semicolon
Line 99 -- need a space between covers and
Line 110 -- use a semicolon, not a comma
Line 121 -- same
Line 130 -- same again
Line 148 -- have, not has
Line 256 -- presumably should say "combination OF sieving..."
Line 417 -- again, use a semicolon, not a comma
Line 431 -- same again
Line 439 -- should be a comma, not a semicolon
Line 488 -- wording here seems incorrect; perhaps easiest to fix by saying "so extreme"