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Mainly in the plain

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The finding that global mass loss from landscapes is dominated by physical erosion and chemical weathering from flat terrain, rather than from mountains, challenges our understanding of how Earth's surface evolves.

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Figure 1: Lowland flat, mountain high.

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  1. James W. Kirchner is in the Department of Environmental System Sciences, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland, and at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.,

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  2. Ken L. Ferrier is in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.,

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