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How River Rocks Round: Resolving the Shape-Size Paradox

River-bed sediments display two universal downstream trends: fining, in which particle size decreases; and rounding, where pebble shapes evolve toward ellipsoids. Rounding is known to result from transport-induced abrasion; however many researchers argue that the contribution of abrasion to downstre...

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Autores principales: Domokos, Gabor, Jerolmack, Douglas J., Sipos, Andras Á., Török, Ákos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24533132
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088657