Sentence examples for erosion down from inspiring English sources

Today it is the eerie and truncated capital of coastal erosion, down to a village of a few hundred inhabitants who are heavily outnumbered by birds – avocet, lapwing and redshank on the glorious expanses of the Dingle Marshes, run by Suffolk Wildlife Trust, immediately to the north.

The mega-tsunami run-up was up to an elevation of 524 m and caused total destruction of the forest as well as erosion down to the bedrock on a spur ridge, along the slide axis.

Much of the island's land mass has been lost to erosion, down to about 2.87 acre from its original 4.5 acre.

In DMM-operated knees, while WT mice exhibited typical OA features, Egfr Wa5/+ mice had marked increases in cartilage surface fibrillation, clefting and erosion down to the tidemark.

The combination of weathering and erosion leads to the wearing down or denudation of mountains and continents, with the erosion products being deposited in rivers, internal drainage basins, and the oceans.

The macroscopic lesions were graded as follows: 0 = normal appearance, 1 = slight yellowish discoloration of the chondral surface, 2 = little cartilage erosions in load-bearing areas, 3 = large erosions extending down to the subchondral bone, and 4 = large erosion with large areas of subchondral bone exposure [ 3].

In the north of Eritrea the highlands narrow and then end in a system of hills, where erosion has cut down to the basement rock.

This differential erosion slowed then down and was eventually stopped by the progressive formation of a surface armoring resulting of the concentration of carbonate concretions at the surface.

Originally, there were five small lakes that extended in a north-south chain, but these coalesced when erosion broke down the dividing ridges.

The southwestern, northwestern, and extreme northern parts of the country consist of a dissected peneplain (a land surface worn down by erosion to a nearly flat plain, later uplifted and again cut by erosion into hills and valleys or into flat uplands separated by valleys); it is made of Precambrian rocks (about 540 million to 4 billion years old).

These mountains were slowly worn down by erosion, and the sea transgressed, eventually covering almost all of the land.