Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

M Huss, B Bookhagen, C Huggel, D Jacobsen… - Earth's …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The cryosphere in mountain regions is rapidly declining, a trend that is expected to
accelerate over the next several decades due to anthropogenic climate change. A cascade …

[HTML][HTML] Sedimentary record of Andean mountain building

BK Horton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Integration of regional stratigraphic relationships with data on sediment accumulation,
provenance, paleodrainage, and deformation timing enables a reconstruction of Mesozoic …

Worldwide acceleration of mountain erosion under a cooling climate

F Herman, D Seward, PG Valla, A Carter, B Kohn… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Climate influences the erosion processes acting at the Earth's surface. However, the effect of
cooling during the Late Cenozoic era, including the onset of Pliocene–Pleistocene Northern …

(U-Th)/He chronology: Part 1. Data, uncertainty, and reporting

RM Flowers, PK Zeitler, M Danišík, PW Reiners… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The field of (U-Th)/He geochronology and thermochronology has grown enormously over
the past∼ 25 years. The tool is applicable across much of geologic time, new (U-Th)/He …

(U-Th)/He chronology: Part 2. Considerations for evaluating, integrating, and interpreting conventional individual aliquot data

RM Flowers, RA Ketcham, E Enkelmann… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The (U-Th)/He dating technique is an essential tool in Earth science research with
diverse thermochronologic, geochronologic, and detrital applications. It is now used in a …

Observed latitudinal variations in erosion as a function of glacier dynamics

M Koppes, B Hallet, E Rignot, J Mouginot, JS Wellner… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Glacial erosion is fundamental to our understanding of the role of Cenozoic-era climate
change in the development of topography worldwide, yet the factors that control the rate of …

Limited influence of climate change mitigation on short-term glacier mass loss

B Marzeion, G Kaser, F Maussion… - Nature Climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Glacier mass loss is a key contributor to sea-level change,, slope instability in high-mountain
regions, and the changing seasonality and volume of river flow,–. Understanding the …

The impact of glaciers on mountain erosion

F Herman, F De Doncker, I Delaney… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Glaciers and ice sheets erode mountains and produce vast quantities of sediments that are
delivered to rivers and oceans, impacting global sediment and biogeochemical balances …

Tectonics, climate, and mountain topography

JD Champagnac, P Molnar, C Sue… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
By regressing simple, independent variables that describe climate and tectonic processes
against measures of topography and relief of 69 mountain ranges worldwide, we quantify …

Glacial cirques as palaeoenvironmental indicators: Their potential and limitations

ID Barr, M Spagnolo - Earth-science reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Glacial cirques are armchair-shaped erosional hollows, typified by steep headwalls and,
often, overdeepened floors. They reflect former regions of glacier initiation, and their …