Sentence examples for selective erosion from inspiring English sources

Often produced by selective erosion of softer strata, roche moutonnée landscapes are characteristic of glaciated crystalline shield areas.

Clay contents of the CW sediments were much higher than in catchment soils, likely because of selective erosion.

The drainage network was then rearranged by selective erosion processes, maintaining a strong inheritance from of its Middle Pleistocene configuration.

(2) During 1960 to 1978, in the beginning of land use change, naturally selective erosion was dominant.

However, Skempton and Brogan (1994) observed selective erosion of fines in internally unstable cohesionless soils for upward flow conditions at critical hydraulic gradients (i c  = 0.2 ~ 0.34) lower than that obtained from Terzaghi's classical approach.

They show repetitive development of side and in-channel bar-forms, as well as up-channel widening of the rivers by selective erosion of associated overbank and levee deposits.

Being a selective process, erosion preferentially removes the light organic fraction of a low density of <1.8 Mg/m3.

Near the continental margins selective linear erosion has overdeepened pre-existing river valleys by as much as 2.8 km.

Landscapes of selective linear erosion were formed, where subglacial melting occurred along certain corridors that were flanking regions of subglacial freezing.

The relief-generating process of selective linear erosion occurs at the fjord onset zone and was responsible for evolving Baffin Island fjords even in the late Quaternary.

Contemporary approaches to investigating and interpreting mid- to high-latitude blockfields provide insights into long-term landscape evolution, selective linear erosion, the geometries and basal thermal regimes of glaciers and ice sheets, and past and present weathering environments.