The topography of the Earth's surface can be read as an archive of past climatic and tectonic upheavals. Field data reveal how a bedrock gorge may be erased within a human lifetime, taking with it the evidence of a major earthquake.
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Sklar, L. An ephemeral gorge. Nature Geosci 7, 624–625 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2235
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