Study Reveals Why Rivers Migrate (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Study Reveals Why Rivers Migrate (1 of 4)

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This is the Liwu River in Taiwan. The steep mountain rivers of Taiwan not only cut down rapidly through rock, they also migrate laterally, changing the map pattern of the river networks. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 7 March, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Sean D. Willett at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "Dynamic Reorganization of River Basins."

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