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“#How do stone forests get their spikes? New research offers pointed answer<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n This false-color photograph shows a “forest” of many candy pinnacles that have been dissolved in water. The candy was initially a solid block containing pores, which the dissolving process has reshaped into a bed-of-nails formation. Credit: NYU’s App<\/a>lied Mathematics Lab
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Stone forests\u2014pointed rock formations resembling trees that populate regions of China, Madagascar, and many other locations worldwide\u2014are as majestic as they are mysterious, created by uncertain forces that give them their shape.<\/p>\n

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A team of scientists has now shed new light on how these natural structures are created. Its research, reported in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/a>s (PNAS),<\/i> also offers promise for the manufacturing of sharp-tipped structures, such as the micro-needles and probes needed for scientific research and medical procedures.<\/p>\n

“This work reveals a mechanism that explains how these sharply pointed rock spires, a source of wonder for centuries, come to be,” says Leif Ristroph, an associate professor at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and one of the paper’s co-authors. “Through a series<\/a> of simulations and experiments, we show how flowing water carves ultra-sharp spikes in landforms.”
\nThe researchers, who included Michael Shelley, a professor at the Courant Institute, note that the study also illuminates a mechanism that explains the prevalence of sharply pointed rock spires in karst\u2014a topography formed by the dissolution of rocks, such as limestone.<\/p>\n

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In their study, the scientists simulated the formation of these pinnacles over time through a mathematical model and computer simulations that took into account how dissolving produces flows and how these flows also affect dissolving and thus reshaping of a formation.<\/p>\n

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To confirm the validity of their simulations, the researchers conducted a series of experiments in NYU’s Applied Mathematics Lab. Here, the scientists replicated the formation of these natural structures by creating sugar-based pinnacles, mimicking soluble rocks that compose karst and similar topographies, and submerging them in tanks of water. Interestingly, no flows had to be imposed, since the dissolving process itself created the flow patterns needed to carve spikes.
\nThe experimental results reflected those of the simulations, thereby supporting the accuracy of the researchers’ model (see “Video2ExperimentSimulation” in the below drive). The authors speculate that these same events happen\u2014albeit far more slowly\u2014when minerals are submerged under water, which later recedes to reveal stone pinnacles and stone forests.<\/p>\n

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\n Jinzi Mac Huang el al., “Ultra-sharp pinnacles sculpted by natural convective dissolution,” PNAS<\/i> (2020). www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2001524117\n <\/div>\n

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