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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-1045-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-1045-2021
Research article
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26 Aug 2021
Research article |  | 26 Aug 2021

Effect of rock uplift and Milankovitch timescale variations in precipitation and vegetation cover on catchment erosion rates

Hemanti Sharma, Todd A. Ehlers, Christoph Glotzbach, Manuel Schmid, and Katja Tielbörger

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We study effects of variable climate–vegetation with different uplift rates on erosion–sedimentation using a landscape evolution modeling approach. Results suggest that regardless of uplift rates, transients in precipitation–vegetation lead to transients in erosion rates in the same direction of change. Vegetation-dependent erosion and sedimentation are influenced by Milankovitch timescale changes in climate, but these transients are superimposed upon tectonically driven uplift rates.