Study finds order in the apparent randomness of Earth's evolving landscape
Monday, July 14, 2014 - 05:50
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —As we all know, water runs downhill, forming channels and branched networks as it flows. It's been that way forever. But, believe it or not, scientists' understanding of these networks hasn't changed much in the last century. Even modern techniques developed and employed since the 1960s cannot easily distinguish between channel networks generated randomly inside a computer and images of channels formed in the real world.