Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-781-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-781-2017
Short communication
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01 Dec 2017
Short communication |  | 01 Dec 2017

Short communication: Massive erosion in monsoonal central India linked to late Holocene land cover degradation

Liviu Giosan, Camilo Ponton, Muhammed Usman, Jerzy Blusztajn, Dorian Q. Fuller, Valier Galy, Negar Haghipour, Joel E. Johnson, Cameron McIntyre, Lukas Wacker, and Timothy I. Eglinton

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (23 Oct 2017) by Simon Mudd
AR by Liviu Giosan on behalf of the Authors (23 Oct 2017)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (27 Oct 2017) by Simon Mudd
ED: Publish as is (30 Oct 2017) by Niels Hovius (Editor)
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Short summary
A reconstruction of erosion in the core monsoon zone of India provides unintuitive but fundamental insights: in contrast to semiarid regions that experience enhanced erosion during erratic rain events, the monsoon is annual and acts as a veritable erosional pump accelerating when the land cover is minimal. The existence of such a monsoon erosional pump promises to reconcile conflicting views on the land–sea sediment and carbon transfer as well as the monsoon evolution on longer timescales.