Stanford Study Overturns Long-Held Belief About Plants and Rivers

Stanford scientists reveal that meandering rivers existed long before plants stabilized their banks, challenging a central narrative in geology. A team of Stanford researchers is challenging a long-standing idea that the emergence of land plants about 500 million years ago dramatically altered the way rivers looked and behaved. Rivers typically fall into two main categories: [...]


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