Mameyes River Floods (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania

Mameyes River Floods

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Puerto Rico's Mameyes River experiences frequent flash floods in which water discharge can increase 100-fold over normal levels. These images of the same section of river (with the identical tree marked in each for reference) show how dramatically river flow can change. Yet a study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania shows that these events have a much smaller contribution to erosion than might be expected.

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Colin Phillips

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