Data Deluge: Texas Flood Canyon Offers Test of Hydrology Theories for Earth and Mars
Monday, June 21, 2010 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
A geologic scar left by a catastrophic Texas flood in 2002 is providing an unexpected scientific benefit. A new study demonstrates how researchers can use a channel carved by floodwaters pouring over the dam of a flooded reservoir as a laboratory to test scientific theories of how such canyons are formed. The research could help to inform the hydrological histories of Earth and Mars by indicating the kind of imprints large, sudden floods leave on a planet's surface. [More] Flood - Mars - Dam - Earth - Earth Sciences