Soil erosion in mountain environments accelerated by agro-pastoral activities for 3,800 years (IMAGE)

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Soil erosion in mountain environments accelerated by agro-pastoral activities for 3,800 years

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Core drilling barge on Bourget Lake in Savoie, during the drilling of the sediments accumulated at the bottom of the lake.Analysis using isotopic geochemistry for the sedimentary core samples that can reconstitute the evolution of erosion over a period of 10,000 years.

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© William RAPUC / EDYTEM / CNRS Images

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