Climatic imprint on landscape morphology in the western escarpment of the Andes

Trends of topography can also be interpreted in temporal terms in which the higher precipitation results in shorter response times, such that the Peruvian Andes between 10 and 20°S are still responding to Miocene uplift, while in the Chilean Andes between 35 and 40°S, these knickzones have already propagated through the entire fluvial network. We anticipate that such changes also operate during the formation and destruction of other mountainous plateau landscapes.