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The hydrologic cycle, as a concept to allow orderly description of the ways in which precipitation on the land surface is partitioned between evaporation, run-off and other lesser consumption, usually exists in a natural steady state. If not, then at least, natural perturbations have a time scale of the order of thousands of years.
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Holmes, J.W. (1971). Salinity and the Hydrologic Cycle. In: Talsma, T., Philip, J.R. (eds) Salinity and Water Use. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01391-3_2
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