Role of dynamic topography in sustaining the Nile River over 30 million years
Nature Geoscience 28d 2 tweets
The path of the river Nile has been stable for as long as 30 million years, sustained by mantle convection, according to geophysical and geological evidence and geodynamic model simulations.


Nature Geoscience 28d ago
NGeo: The Nile river is 30 million years old, and sustained by a mantle convection cell
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Jeffrey Marlow 9d ago
The course of the Nile River, it seems, is set not just by the rocks and sediments it flows over on Earth's surface, but also by deeper mantle activity that keeps Ethiopia high and Egypt low. It's been running roughly the same path for ~30 million years.
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