Erosion is the process that wears away the river bed and banks. Erosion also breaks up the rocks that are carried by the river. Landslides are occasional, rapid movements of a mass of earth or ...
Although erosion is a natural process, abusive land-use practices such as deforestation and overgrazing can expedite erosion and strip the land of soils needed for food to grow.
and whether erosion is a continuous or episodic process for a given ecosystem. Large, episodic events may bury large amounts of organic-rich material below the surface, decreasing its ...