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Earth and Space Sciences · Glossary

What is Topographic steady state?

Definition 18.17 University Earth and Space Sciences — Year 3 · Chapter 18 — Quantitative Geomorphology

A landscape is in topographic steady state when its erosion rate equals the rock uplift rate everywhere, so that its elevations do not change though rock passes through it.

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