Sentence examples for heavy erosion from inspiring English sources

The sides had suffered moderate to heavy erosion.

Exposed hillsides were subject to heavy erosion, and one result was the deposition of sediment on the gravel spawning beds used by salmon.

Precipitation, which is scarce and falls mostly in violent rainstorms, causes floods and heavy erosion, while heat is oppressive for eight months of the year.

The only places on Mars where clays are detectable today are where the surface has been exposed to heavy erosion or a meteorite impact.

Seismic activity combined with heavy erosion has gradually exposed the region's fossil record, greatly reducing the amount of excavation required for locating hominin remains.

But agronomists say that heavy erosion in unprotected areas can significantly diminish crop yields, and, over time, land that is not well cared for can become depleted.

TRAFFIC ADVISORY: Heavy rain erosion has lane 2 of S/B 295 CLOSED just prior to Exit #1.

The Padma River is known for heavy bank erosion, shifting channels, and sandbars that continually emerge in its course.

And in the District, part of the southbound side of Interstate 295 is closed because of "heavy rain erosion," according to D.C. police.

Heavy soil erosion in parts of Iraq, some of it induced by overgrazing and deforestation, leaves soils exposed to markedly seasonal rainfall.

Roque Nublo, a 3.7 2.9 Ma stratovolcanic cone, which was superimposed upon the Fataga rocks ≥ 3 km west of the Fataga center, has left no considerable paleosurfaces behind due to heavy postvolcanic erosion.