Taiwan's 'vanishing canyon' erasing quake record (BBC)
By Jonathan Webb
Science reporter, BBC News
Geologists say the Daan River, which floods regularly and violently, will wipe the gorge off the map in 50 years.
Savage earthquakes shake this region every 300-400 years, and the results explain why little evidence remains of previous tremors, making predictions and mapping of fault lines difficult.
The find also allows researchers to witness gorge erosion in fast-forward.
The study is published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Erasing the evidence
"The really cool thing about this place is that it's happening so fast, we can watch it," said Dr Kristen Cook, a geologist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam.
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