Sentence examples for winter erosion from inspiring English sources

While only a single diorite boulder eroded an average of 1.2 mm after the winter, winter erosion removed an average of 5.5 mm from 14 sandstone boulders.

The oilseed radish grows well in cool climates and, apart from its industrial use, can be used as a cover crop, grown to increase soil fertility, to scavenge nutrients, suppress weeds, help alleviate soil compaction and prevent winter erosion of the soil.

And from 2002 to 2007, erosion chopped off a whopping 13.6 meters of land per year.

Today, erosion (landsliding, earthflow, gullying) in the East Coast region of the North Island is unique.

From the 2004 erosion map, we observed that the spatial distribution of erosion, for the thirty-year period after planting, was mainly controlled by lithology and historical landscape structure, whatever the slope.

After the Yangtze River was closed by the Three Gorges Project (TGP) in 2003, erosion occurred from the dam site to the river mouth, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Caesium-137 derived from nuclear testing in the past century has been widely used as a sediment tracer of soil redistribution, providing information on medium term (40 50 years) erosion rates.

By 1906, erosion had become apparent at the base of the tree.

In June 2006, erosion resulting from heavy rains exposed human remains near the westbound lanes of Route 37 in Cranston.

Under questioning from government attorney Tom Benson, Griffiths said that before May 8, 2010, erosion of metal parts after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in late April affected cumulative discharge.

Today, erosion caused by ship movements on the nearby Canal has left considerable portions of the Diolkos in a poor state, particularly at its excavated western end.