Increased sedimentation rates and grain sizes 2–4 Myr ago due to the influence of climate change on erosion rates

By Peizhen Zhang, P. Molnar, W. Downs. Nature, 2001

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Subfields: Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes

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Wetland-Dryland Vegetational Dynamics in the Pennsylvanian Ice Age Tropics (2013, background): “Climatic factors exert a strong and sometimes primary control on sedimentation dynamics (Stanley and Warne 1994; Peizhen et al. 2001) and, even through climatic effects on erosion, greatly affect timing and rates of mountain building (Montgomery et al. 2001; Grujic et al. 2006; Whipple 2009).”
Climatic controls on frost cracking and implications for the evolution of bedrock landscapes (2007, background): “Enhanced periglacial erosion related to climate cooling events has been suggested as the mechanism causing rapid terrace accumulation events and rapid filling of sedimentary basins [Bull and Knuepfer, 1987; Pan et al., 2003; Zhang et al., 2001].”
Understanding Earth’s eroding surface with 10Be (2011, background): “Taken at face value, the offset between outcrop and drainage basin erosion rates is consistent with increasing relief, which may be driven by base-level changes (Riebe et al., 2001b), the result of Pleistocene sea-level changes, or by repeated climate swings (Peizhen et al., 2001).”
Soil erosion response to climatic change and human activity during the Quaternary on the Loess Plateau, China (2006, neutral): “In any given situation it is important to know how far rates of soil loss are typical of the long-term geological norm and to what degree they are controlled by climate or anthropogenic influence (Roberts 1994; Dearing 1994; Zhang et al. 2001; Dearing and Jones 2003).”
Vertebrate paleontology, biostratigraphy, geochronology, and paleoenvironment of Qaidam Basin in northern Tibetan Plateau (2007, background): “…and uplift of the surrounding mountains, or due to an outward growth of the Tibetan Plateau (Wang and Coward, 1990; Di and Wang, 1991; Métivier et al., 1998; Fu et al., 2001; Xia et al., 2001), although such rate increase may also be a result of climatic changes (Zhang et al., 2001; Molnar, 2004).”