A large chunk of my Ph.D. research is now out in the journal Sedimentology (you can find it here). The following post is meant to be a general summary of this work for a broader audience and will skip ...

The surface of Earth is being reshaped constantly. Mountainous uplands are broken down by water and wind producing sediment that is moved by rivers to lowlands. Some of this sediment is deposited ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The surface of Earth is being reshaped ...