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The wind in the hollows

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Flowing water shapes most of Earth's canyons, obscuring the contributions of other erosional mechanisms. A comparison of adjacent canyons with and without wind shielding shows that wind can amplify canyon incision on windblown Earth and Mars.

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Figure 1: Wind on, wind off.

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  1. J. Taylor Perron is in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,

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Perron, J. The wind in the hollows. Nature Geosci 8, 254–255 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2389

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