A new study by former University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate student Jeffrey Kwang, now at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Abigail Langston, of Kansas State University; and Illinois civil and environmental engineering professor Gary Parker takes a closer look at the vertical and lateral—or depth and width—components of river erosion and drainage patterns. The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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