Sentence examples for erosion river from inspiring English sources

The uplift of the anticline hinges led to enhanced surface erosion, river piracy and development of radial drainage networks.

In an actively deforming orogen, maintenance of a topographic steady state requires that hillslope erosion, river incision, and rock uplift rates are balanced over timescales of 105 107 years.

Deforestation, soil erosion, river pollution, conflict with indigenous people, drug trafficking, civil war and poverty can all be attributed to this attempt to provide for the landless by expanding the agricultural frontier, without resolving inequities in access to natural resources and the unsustainable livelihoods systems prevailing in the Andean highlands.

Other landslides destroyed over 20 houses along the rivers in the city due to erosion along river banks.

One of the biggest threats to fish is soil erosion from river banks, which raises the temperature of the water by making the river wider and shallower, and which clogs the clean gravel required by fish to lay their eggs.

In areas of high erosion, a river carries bits of soil and vegetation to the sea.

Today, the paddy fields are gone, and the village is abandoned, fallen prey to hillside erosion and river siltation.

In idealized "steady state" mountain landscapes, erosion of river beds keeps pace with tectonic uplift.

And when these gushing rivers, squeezing between embankments, reach areas without embankments, they are moving even faster and more ferociously than before, causing massive erosion of river banks.

Cosmogenic data for upland erosion and river incision rates allow each model parameter to be uniquely constrained.

The landscape evolution in this basin is complex and does not respond to a simple model of headward erosion following river capture of a former endorheic catchment.