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Originally Posted by Alchemy
RE is Australia washing away.... Clearly, as the oldest and flattest continent on earth, it's all washed away..... I guess the problem perhaps not really stated is the following. Removal of vegetation that holds together the soil, allows it to be washed away.
Intruiging nonetheless.
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There was some mention of the effects of bushfires in the headwaters of major rivers on the sediment yield but, yes, anthropogenic effects weren't highlighted. I can assure you Gerald is not ignorant of the effects of European landscape change on soils and rivers. In fact several of his postgrads in the last 15 years (if not before) have studied exactly that. I can think of 2 PhDs that looked at changes in river morphology, and I think there were also a few honours projects there.