Erosion
ConceptGeological Processes and Concepts
Surface processes that remove and transport soil, rock, or dissolved material.
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Erosion
- Geological Processes and Concepts
Erosion is the removal of soil, rock, or dissolved material from one place on Earth’s crust and its transport to another, where it is deposited. It differs from weathering because it involves movement. Water, wind, waves, glaciers, groundwater, and mass movements can cause erosion. Although natural, erosion can be greatly accelerated by human activities, contributing to land degradation, reduced agricultural productivity, sedimentation, and damage to infrastructure.
- Definition
- Removal and transport of surface material
- Primary causes of land degradation
- Water and wind erosion
- Human impact
- Soil erosion globally increased by 10–40 times
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Erosion (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q80026
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By Katharina Helming. CC BY-SA 1.0 · File page on Wikimedia CommonsKatharina Helming, Given to me by the photographerModifications: Resized and converted to WebP
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