{"id":3951,"date":"2015-03-09T12:02:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2015-03-09T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:11:56","slug":"wind-sculpted-canyons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wind-sculpted-canyons\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind-sculpted canyons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3954\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Perkins_etal_image1-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3954\" class=\"wp-image-3954 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Perkins_etal_image1-1024x768-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"At the margins of the Atacama desert in northeast Chile, wind is thought to carve canyons faster than rivers. This view is looking out of a canyon mouth toward the west, where strong westerly winds have repeatedly attacked this landscape over the past four million years. (Credit: Noah J. Finnegan)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Perkins_etal_image1-1024x768-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Perkins_etal_image1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the margins of the Atacama desert in northeast Chile, wind is thought to carve canyons faster than rivers. This view is looking out of a canyon mouth toward the west, where strong westerly winds have repeatedly attacked this landscape over the past four million years. (Credit: Noah J. Finnegan)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Winds could be responsible for the shape of some modern canyons on Earth and other planets such as Mars, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analysed a set of river gorges in the Chilean Andes where some of the canyons are exposed to strong winds, and others are shielded. They found that wind explained differences in the canyons\u2019 shape: canyons exposed to wind are longer, wider and smoother than those influenced by water alone.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers conclude that wind could also have reshaped canyons seen on Mars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoncologist.alphamedpress.org\/content\/early\/2015\/03\/06\/theoncologist.2014-0268.abstract?sid=8d68c67f-93bb-4365-9952-fc29eb23de70\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Geoscience\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>March 9<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Jonathan Perkins, University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winds could be responsible for the shape of some modern canyons on Earth and other planets such as Mars, according to a new study. Researchers analysed a set of river gorges in the Chilean Andes where some of the canyons are exposed to strong winds, and others are shielded. They found that wind explained differences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[215,1457,1348,1362],"class_list":["post-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-environment","tag-geology","tag-mars","tag-wind"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Perkins_etal_image1-1024x768.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-11J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3955,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions\/3955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}