A new model can help land use and infrastructure planners understand what rivers might look like millions of years from now (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

A new model can help land use and infrastructure planners understand what rivers might look like millions of years from now

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The three panels show model results of a landscape and river network evolving over 10 million years. The first panel represents 0 to 5 million years, the second panel shows 5 to 10 million years and the third shows 10 to 15 million years.

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