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Illustrated diagram showing five types of erosion: a river gradually carving a valley, ocean waves cutting back coastal cliffs, wind blowing away topsoil, a glacier moving rocks and boulders, and a landslide displacing earth down a slope. Steep, eroded gullies and ridges of the Calanco badlands in Atri, Abruzzo, Italy, with green fields and distant hills in the background. Beach erosion eroded valley Alaska: Mendenhall Glacier Dust Bowl era: Oklahoma, 1937 Figure 2: Dissected pediment surfaces on the northeastern flank of Mount Graham, southeastern Arizona. The pediments are mantled with early Pleistocene–late Pliocene alluvium. Figure 1: Planation surface cut across dipping Paleozoic sandstone in the James Range, central Australia. Figure 1: A schematic representation of the biogeochemical cycle of carbon. soil erosion
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Modified link of Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - Economic valuation of erosion. Oct 02, 2026
Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - Economic valuation of erosion. Mar 17, 2026
Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Erosion. Feb 04, 2026
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Weathering and erosion of fractured bedrock systems (PDF). Sep 06, 2025
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Weathering and Erosion. May 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Bridgewater State University - Weathering and Erosion. Dec 03, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Washington - Department of Earth and Space Sciences - How Erosion Builds Mountains. Oct 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Plant and Soil Sciences e-Library - Erosion. Aug 07, 2024
Add new Web site: Queensland Government - Environment, land and water - Types of erosion. Jun 14, 2024
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Erosion. Jan 31, 2024
Add new Web site: Pressbooks @ Howard Community College - Weathering and Erosion. Nov 03, 2023
Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Erosion. Oct 27, 2023
Add new Web site: Professional Football Researchers Association - Mike Webster. Apr 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Weathering. Dec 16, 2022
Add new Web site: Queensland Government - Environment, land and water - Erosion. Sep 22, 2022
Add new Web site: British Geological Survey - Erosion. Mar 17, 2022
Add new Web site: UN environment programme - Sedimentation and Erosion. Feb 07, 2022
Deleted video. May 22, 2020
Added a photograph of eroded gullies in Atri, Italy. May 22, 2020
Add new Web site: Kids Geo - Kids Geology - Erosion By Water Processes. Mar 05, 2018
Add new Web site: Freie University of Berlin - Department of Earth Sciences - Uplift and Erosion. Aug 29, 2017
Article revised. May 11, 2017
Three photos added depicting the results of erosion in Puget Sound, Washington; the Grand Canyon, Arizona; and the Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska. May 11, 2017
Add new Web site: Cool Kid Facts - Erosion Facts. Dec 16, 2016
Add new Web site: Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Soil Erosion and Conservation. Sep 20, 2016
Add new Web site: One Geology - Kids - Weathering and Erosion. Sep 19, 2016
Add new Web site: Easy Science for Kids - Erosion. Sep 19, 2016
Add new Web site: Kids Geo - Kids Geology - Erosion By Water Processes. Sep 19, 2016
Added video about how gravity and erosion shape stones. Dec 03, 2015
Add new Web site: Rader's Geography4Kids.com - Erosion. Feb 10, 2014
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Erosion. Feb 10, 2014
Added diagram depicting various types of erosion. Feb 01, 2012
Spelling of "resistence" changed to "resistance." May 12, 2011
Diagram of the different types of erosion added. May 12, 2011
Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Water Erosion. Jan 28, 2011
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Soil Erosion. Jan 28, 2011
Added new Web site: National Geographic - Science and Space - Erosion and Weathering. Apr 17, 2009
Added new Web site: University of the Western Cape - Soil Erosion. Nov 18, 2008
Added new Web site: Government of Ontario - Soil Erosion - Causes and Effects. Nov 18, 2008
Added new Web site: Government of Alberta - An Introduction to Water Erosion Control. Oct 13, 2008
Added new Web site: Banglapedia - Coastal Erosion. Sep 09, 2008
Added new Web site: Standard Grade Geography - Soil Erosion. Jun 30, 2008
Added new Web site: Geoindicators - Soil and sediment erosion. Jan 15, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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