Sheet erosion or sheet wash is the even erosion of substrate along a wide area. It occurs in a wide range of settings such as coastal plains, hill slopes...
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produces four main types of soil erosion: splash erosion, sheet erosion, rill erosion, and gully erosion. Splash erosion is generally seen as the first...
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water erosion, glacial erosion, snow erosion, wind (aeolian) erosion, zoogenic erosion and anthropogenic erosion such as tillage erosion. Soil erosion may...
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Erosion control is the practice of preventing or controlling wind or water erosion in agriculture, land development, coastal areas, river banks and construction...
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Mass wasting (redirect from Gravitational erosion)
increase in water content produces a sheetflood, which is a form of sheet erosion rather than mass wasting. On Earth, mass wasting occurs on both terrestrial...
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deposited at the base of a hillslope by unconcentrated surface runoff or sheet erosion. Colluviation refers to the buildup of colluvium at the base of a hillslope...
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Stream capture (section Headward erosion)
as by a landslide or ice sheet Erosion, either Headward erosion of one stream valley upwards into another, or Lateral erosion of a meander through the...
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Chrysopogon zizanioides (section Erosion control)
plant is highly drought-tolerant and can help to protect soil against sheet erosion. In case of sediment deposition, new roots can grow out of buried nodes...
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channel. It can also refer to the widening of a canyon by erosion along its very top edge, when sheets of water first enter the canyon from a more roughly planar...
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Fluvial sediment processes (redirect from Fluvial erosion)
rainsplash erosion. If overland flow is directly responsible for sediment entrainment but does not form gullies, it is called "sheet erosion". If the flow...
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schist by compressional tectonic forces, forming a nappe or overthrust sheet. Erosion of the limestone nappe led to the eventual detachment of the Acropolis...
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Stroeven, A.P.; Lundqvist, Jan (2008). "Patterns of Quaternary ice sheet erosion and deposition in Fennoscandia and a theoretical framework for explanation"...
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or aggravated by human activities, e.g. soil erosion, soil contamination, soil acidification, sheet erosion, silting, aridification, salinization, urbanization...
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Exfoliation joint (redirect from Exfoliation joints (sheet joints))
Exfoliation joints or sheet joints are surface-parallel fracture systems in rock, often leading to the erosion of concentric slabs. Commonly follow topography...
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Surface runoff (category Soil erosion)
types of soil erosion by water: splash erosion, sheet erosion, rill erosion and gully erosion. Splash erosion is the result of mechanical collision of...
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Stroeven, A. P.; Lundqvist, Jan (2008). "Patterns of Quaternary ice sheet erosion and deposition in Fennoscandia and a theoretical framework for explanation"...
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ignimbrite plateau which is a principal sector of the Bishop Tuff outflow sheet. Erosion of the plateau by the Owens River has carved the Owens River Gorge.: 2 ...
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Sheet metal is metal formed into thin, flat pieces, usually by an industrial process. Thicknesses can vary significantly; extremely thin sheets are considered...
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Sea level rise (section Ice sheet loss in Greenland)
improvements in ice-sheet modeling and the incorporation of structured expert judgements. These decisions came as the observed ice-sheet erosion in Greenland...
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Retaining wall (redirect from Sheet piling)
hence are used in urban constructions. Sheet pile retaining walls are usually used in soft soil and tight spaces. Sheet pile walls are driven into the ground...
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Aeolian processes (redirect from Wind erosion)
intense and sustained erosion are called deflation zones. Most aeolian deflation zones are composed of desert pavement, a sheet-like surface of rock fragments...
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The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern...
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Glossary of landforms (section Erosion landforms)
formed by glacial erosion Col – Lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks Crevasse – A deep crack, or fracture, in an ice sheet or glacier Corrie –...
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terrain has eroded away. Pediments are erosional surfaces. A pediment develops when sheets of running water (sheet floods) wash over it in intense rainfall...
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In permaculture, sheet mulching is an agricultural no-dig gardening technique that attempts to mimic the natural soil-building process in forests. When...
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Weichselian glaciation (redirect from Fennoscandian ice sheet)
deposits escaped glacier erosion and are particularly well preserved at present. Also during times of maximum extent the ice sheet terminated to the east...
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Electrical discharge machining (redirect from Spark erosion)
known as spark machining, spark eroding, die sinking, wire burning or wire erosion, is a metal fabrication process whereby a desired shape is obtained by...
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addition to the erosion of the WAIS. This Antarctica-only sea level rise would be in addition to ice losses from the Greenland ice sheet and mountain glaciers...
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investors' balance sheet, erosion of investors' net worth further reduces asset prices, which feeds back into their balance sheet and so on. This is what...
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