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09/04/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Researchers discover that rock distribution on riverbeds has more to do with the river’s shape than water flow

If you want to know what your local river will look like in the future, your best clue is to inspect its rocks. A joint Scottish-French study on waterfalls suggests that the type of rock on a riverbed have a much bigger impact on the evolution of rivers and waterfalls than the amount of water coursing […]

10/22/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Sex CAN move mountains; salmon mating habits alter stream beds, defining the shape of the watershed

It turns out that sex – not love – has the power to literally move mountains. Washington State University’s School of the Environment associate professor and researcher Alex Fremier has discovered that the mating habits of the fish species salmon can bring changes to the profiles of stream beds, thus altering the entire composition of […]

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