Stress Drives the Breakdown of Bedrock to Soil (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Stress Drives the Breakdown of Bedrock to Soil (1 of 3)

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Dr. Steve Martel and Dr. Seulgi Moon examine an outcrop in the Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 30, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. St. Clair at University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY, and colleagues was titled, 'Geophysical imaging reveals topographic stress control of bedrock weathering.'

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Taylor Perron

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