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A fresh look at river flow

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A detailed survey of the Fraser River in Canada challenges preconceptions about how river water flows. The results call for a re-evaluation of how waterways carve through bedrock to form canyons. See Letter p.534

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Figure 2: Flow velocity in rivers.

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  1. Nicole M. Gasparini is in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA.,

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