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Tag: hill

The non-slippery slope: Bison and tires

August 3, 2011 Marc Abrahams

Bison and tires figure together in a University of Arizona research project. The university’s press release says: Researchers rolled tires over a 25 meter slope above the cliff and used a stop watch to determine their speed in an attempt to approximate the speed of a running bison. Based on the tire model, UA doctoral […]

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Mudd on a Hill

January 11, 2010 Marc Abrahams

Mudd weighs in on a hill: “Influence of Chemical Denudation on Hillslope Morphology,” S.M. Mudd and D.J. Furbish, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109(4), 2004, F02001, doi:10.1029/2003JF000087. (Thanks to Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.) Mudd (pictured below) is at the University of Edinburgh.

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