Sentence examples for physical erosion from inspiring English sources

Even if a pitcher avoids a traumatic injury -- a severe tear of the rotator cuff, for example -- there is physical erosion.

Physical erosion rates are measured as part of our mass balance approach, making it particularly useful for studying interrelationships between chemical weathering and physical erosion.

Deforestation and agriculture can explain the accelerated physical erosion in the two developed catchments.

In this study, we investigate the influence of physical erosion on soil profile weathering rate calculations.

Surface Na depletion also tended to decrease with increasing physical erosion.

Thus, these results confirm that the plateau surfaces are nearly immune to physical erosion for tens of millions of years.

The results also indicate that physical erosion is likely the dominant long-term process of regolith denudation in the catchment.

Olivine is considerably heavier than normal quartz sand (specific masses of 3,400 versus 2,650 kg/m3), which makes it more resistant to physical erosion.

The recession of carbonate stones in rainwater is due to both dissolution (chemical erosion) and mechanical removal of grains (physical erosion) [12].

A simple direct explanation would be that tectonic activity with ground motion weakens and fractures bedrock, creates debris, and hence incites physical erosion (Molnar et al. 2007).

The cavitation has a beneficial effect on the atomization process and a negative one on the physical erosion generated by the vapor bubble collapse.