Researchers find a common angle and tipping point of branching valley networks
Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 07:00
in Earth & Climate
Over the course of decades or even centuries, Earth's landscape can appear relatively static, with mountains and valleys seemingly anchored firmly in place. Viewed over a longer timescale, however—on the order of hundreds of thousands of years—the Earth's topography becomes a rippling, shifting, changing tableau.