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The restless rocks of Racetrack Playa

02 Jul 2015
Taken from the July 2015 issue of Physics World

Tucked away in California’s Death Valley National Park, the flat basin known as Racetrack Playa is littered with stones that seem to migrate across the landscape. But how do they do it? Brian Jackson describes how he and collaborators Ralph Lorenz and Richard Norris solved a long-standing mystery

A restless rock of Racetrack Playa
 When you step out onto Racetrack Playa in California, the first thing you notice is the desert win

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