Million-year lag times in a post-orogenic sediment conveyor

R. H. Fülöp; A. T. Codilean; K. M. Wilcken; T. J. Cohen; D. Fink; A. M. Smith; B. Yang; V. A. Levchenko; L. Wacker; S. K. Marx; N. Stromsoe; T. Fujioka; T. J. Dunai

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Million-year lag times in a post-orogenic sediment conveyor

R. H. Fülöp, A. T. Codilean, K. M. Wilcken, T. J. Cohen, D. Fink, A. M. Smith, B. Yang, V. A. Levchenko, L. Wacker, S. K. Marx, N. Stromsoe, T. Fujioka, T. J. Dunai

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Understanding how sediment transport and storage will delay, attenuate, and even erase the erosional signal of tectonic and climatic forcings has bearing on our ability to read and interpret the geologic record effectively. Here, we estimate sediment transit times in Australia's largest river system, the Murray-Darling basin, by measuring downstream changes in cosmogenic ²⁶Al/¹⁰Be/¹⁴C ratios in modern river sediment. Results show that the sediments have experienced multiple episodes of burial and reexposure, with cumulative lag times exceeding 1 Ma in the downstream reaches of the Murray and Darling rivers. Combined with low sediment supply rates and old sediment blanketing the landscape, we posit that sediment recycling in the Murray-Darling is an important and ongoing process that will substantially delay and alter signals of external environmental forcing transmitted from the sediment's hinterland.

Original language	English
Article number	eaaz8845
Pages (from-to)	1-7
Number of pages	7
Journal	Science Advances
Volume	6
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz8845
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2020

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