Sentence examples for cycles of erosion from inspiring English sources
Structurally, the Greater Caucasus represents a great uplift at the margin of the Alpine downwarp about 25 million years ago and subsequently altered by fresh cycles of erosion and uplift.
There also is a place for cycles of erosion of several kinds and for dynamic equilibrium, either as an end phase of enduring climatic morphogenesis and/or as an end phase of relief and elevation reduction by denudation following orogenesis.
They can outlast the rocks in which they initially formed, enduring multiple cycles of erosion and deposition.
As cycles of erosion and mitigation iterate, coastline change and economically driven interventions become mutually linked.
Response times of CRN concentrations to changes in erosion rate indicate that climatically driven cycles of erosion may be detected, but that complete equilibration of CRN concentrations to new erosional conditions may take tens of thousands of years.
The dominant model for several decades was developed and widely disseminated by William Morris Davis, who conceived an idealized normal cycle of erosion in temperate climatic regions involving the erosive power of running water.
The overall aspect of relief, however, exhibits characteristics of an early, or juvenile, stage in the cycle of erosion.
"The end of the cycle of erosion and transport and the beginning of the generation (through burial and transformation) of new materials of great value to society".
Humans have set in train their own great cycle of erosion, similar to that which beset many parts of western Europe in the 18th century and which has assailed many parts of the American West since the late 19th century.
It was further explained that such a cycle of erosion occurs under conditions of a rain-and-rivers environment (what present-day investigators would call a humid climate), which were assumed to reflect the normal climate for the Earth.
In this work, he proposed that the physical features of the land are the result of a long, continued, orderly change by means of erosion and that this sequential change through time constituted a cycle of erosion, which he thought vital in understanding present-day landscape and geological history.
