[Photo of Alex Densmore]

Bean there, done that: It may look like a fancy ant farm, but this device led to a report in the prestigious journal Science for graduate student Alex Densmore (shown) and his colleagues in the lab of Robert Anderson, associate professor of earth sciences. The team used the narrow plastic box filled with red beans to mimic landslides in nature. Their results offer a new explanation for the shapes of river canyons. (Photo: Robert Irion, Public Information Office)


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