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Mountain Erosion Rates Increased as Climate Cooled
2013-12-26 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A topographical investigation of global cooling and glaciation over the last 2- to 3 million years has led to a new understanding of the balance between tectonics, climate and their interaction through erosion. A research team from the University of Tübingen Geoscience Department and other institutions compiled bedrock thermochronometric data from around the world to make their assessments. Thermochronometry is the study of a mineral, rock or geological region using radiometric dating of...
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