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Tectonically twisted rivers

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Tracking diffuse, shearing deformation of continents is difficult. Numerical modelling of drainage evolution in the Southern Alps, New Zealand, suggests that rivers can act as dynamic markers of tectonic deformation over geological timescales.

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Figure 1: Rivers in the Southern Alps, New Zealand.

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  1. Eric Kirby is in the Department of Geosciences, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA,

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Kirby, E. Tectonically twisted rivers. Nature Geosci 5, 688–689 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1594

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