Sentence examples for slope erosion from inspiring English sources

Wisely used, this renewable resource is a safeguard against floods, slope erosion, and air pollution.

Logging and oil exploration have been responsible for accelerated slope erosion, both from the operations themselves and from the access roads built to reach them.

Sedimentary architecture indicates that the sand ramps are composite records of aeolian, hill slope erosion and fluvio-lacustrine activity.

This, they said, was probably due to the impacts of humans on mainland Greece, who deforested the landscape and increased slope erosion rates over a period of about 4,000 years.

Current physically based erosion models do not carefully consider the dynamic variations of soil properties during rainfall and are unable to simulate saline-sodic soil slope erosion processes.

However, the most recent (since c. 1800 CE) environmental changes, i.e., deforestation, enhanced channel and slope erosion and lake in-filling are a consequence of direct human interventions.

To maintain buttressing at a toe slope, revetments using riprap, gabion mattresses, concrete facings, and articulated block systems can prevent toe-slope erosion.

Furthermore, some of the beads retrieved from terrace fills, which accumulated through down-slope erosion, and a midden/byre deposit, which extended more than a metre in depth, have corroded surfaces that could influence the results.

We used a locally determined relationship between average upstream slope and erosion rate to model erosion across the landscape.

On the other hand, deforestation on the till plain and on the slope triggered erosion.

However, it is speculated that a form of topographic steady state could arise from a competition between hemipelagic deposition which attempts to aggrade the slope and erosion along canyon channels.