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Sculpting the Sphinx
Samuel Boury, Scott Weady, Leif Ristroph, 2023. Physical Review Fluids 8, 110503 (Gallery of Fluid Motion).
Water-tunnel experiments in which bentonite mounds with a hard inclusion erode into lion-like forms with head, neck, back and paws, offered as a qualitative analogue for a natural yardang origin. The authors state the results do not resolve the Sphinx question.
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Boury, S., Weady, S., & Ristroph, L. (2023). Sculpting the Sphinx. Physical Review Fluids 8, 110503 (Gallery of Fluid Motion). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.110503
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Boury, Samuel et al.. “Sculpting the Sphinx.” Physical Review Fluids 8, 110503 (Gallery of Fluid Motion) (2023). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.110503.