Sentence examples for marine erosion from inspiring English sources

** The inhabitants of England, an island nation, have always been conscious of the powerful marine erosion by which her coasts are eaten away.

The main biological resource consists of the hardwoods of the tropical rainforest especially the greenheart tree, which is resistant to termites, decay, and marine erosion.

The inhabitants of England, an island nation, have always been conscious of the powerful marine erosion by which her coasts are eaten away.

The south coast, officially designated an Area of Outstanding Beauty, has excellent examples of differential marine erosion because of its diverse geologic strata.

The ultimate fate of most islands, however, is to be drowned through subsidence and/or truncation by marine erosion.

The erosional downlap surface that separates the TST from the FSST is the regressive surface of marine erosion (RSME).

On the footwall crests the combination of marine regressive erosion, during falls in relative sea-level, and uplift has resulted in complete removal of the sediments of the TST from these sites, leading to the formation of a tectonically enhanced basal unconformity composed of the RSME superimposed onto the previous SB/RS (SB/RS/RSME).

This configuration facilitated deep incision, which prevented large-scale marine flooding and erosion.

As the global demand for cheap meat grows, the expansion of agricultural land is putting more and pressure on our forests, rivers and oceans, contributing to deforestation, soil erosion, marine pollution zones and the global biodiversity crisis, he said.

The buffer acts as a sand reservoir and delays marine driven cliff erosion, resulting in lower estimated cliff retreat compared to previous models neglecting protective beaches.

Our analysis suggests that Santa Catalina Island has recently experienced, and may still be experiencing, relatively rapid uplift, causing intense landscape rejuvenation that removed nearly all traces of marine terraces by erosion.