Sentence examples for owing to erosion from inspiring English sources

This is producing a lot of problems in Native communities; several Native villages may have to be moved owing to erosion that is being caused, or at least hastened, by climate change.

Owing to erosion, friction, and internal damage and cracks, etc., a working process of a system always accompanies gradual degradation of the performance of this system: the stiffness of the system weakens, whereas the damping of the system strengthens.

Others argue that the rock record is biased owing to preferential erosion or thermal overprinting (development of a new mineralogy that may obliterate the original one) of old blueschists and eclogites.

The porous media can be subjected to changes in structure owing to deposition, erosion, swelling or shrinkage which, in turn, affects the transport properties of the media.

The Quaternary stratigraphic record in the Canadian Cordillera becomes less complete with age, owing to repeated erosion during both interglaciations and glaciations.

The results show that the failure was principally owing to comprehensive multiphase erosion, an interaction of the fly ash wearing, flue gas washing and sulfurous acid corrosion.

These data suggest that the biopolymer would be less effective than PAM for reducing water erosion owing to its lesser flocculation and aggregate-stabilizing potential.

The problem of soil erosion owing to ploughing of open furrows has largely been obviated by improved drainage network design coupled with the use of vegetated buffer strips and sediment catchpits.

The process from deep burial to shallow subsurface owing to tectonic uplift and/or erosion will result in a decrease of confining pressure and transformation of ductility to semi-brittleness or even to brittleness.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development recently noted (about UK experience in the year 2000): 'Exports picked up, reflecting the dynamism of demand overseas, but market share erosion continued owing to strength of the pound, despite the compression of exporters' margins... On most estimates the pound remains overvalued.

Fonuafoʿou has arisen and disappeared repeatedly, owing to its cycles of eruption and erosion.