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River Network Rearrangements in Amazonia Shake Biogeography and Civil Security
2018-09-10
Abstract excerpt
The scene for regional biogeography and human settlements in Central Amazonia is set by the river network, which presumably consolidated in the Pliocene. However, we present geomorphological and sediment chronological data showing that the river network has been anything but stable. Even during the last 50 kyr, the tributary relationships have repeatedly changed for four major rivers, together corresponding to one...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e855c4fb-bb80-59a5-80b7-36cca8aa2036
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201809.0168.v1