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Emergent sculpture

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Sandstone arches and other striking landforms are the showpieces of national parks around the globe. Experiments and numerical analyses show that they result from a self-organization process that involves vertical load, wind erosion and grain locking.

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Figure 1: Buttressing arches.

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  1. Chris Paola is at the Department of Earth Sciences and St Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA,

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Paola, C. Emergent sculpture. Nature Geosci 7, 552–553 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2215

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