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A data-set compilation suggests that measurements of river erosion into rock depend on the observation timescale, casting doubt on whether terraces and other incised landforms faithfully record changes in climate and tectonics. See Letter p.391

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Figure 1: A flight of river terraces in the Tian Shan foreland, China.

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  1. Roman A. DiBiase is in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.,

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DiBiase, R. River incision revisited. Nature 505, 294–295 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/505294a

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