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Coastline carve thyself

Theory accounts for land's fractal fringes.

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  1. Sapoval, B., Baldassarri, A. & Gabrielle, A. Self-stabilised fractality of sea-coasts through damped erosion. Preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311509, (2003).

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Ball, P. Coastline carve thyself. Nature (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/news031124-4

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