Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or produced by erosion.
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- adjective Pertaining to
erosion .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Climatic and geological changes over time would be expected to change areas back and forth between sedimentary and erosional environments.
A Confession 2010
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Water is causing erosional damage and stains to a number of chapels.
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappodocia, Turkey 2008
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After having tumbled from above some time ago, it now quietly lies on the sand below, sinking, totally in submission to the slow erosional forces of the waves.
Operation Beachhead 2008
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The range is a striking example of erosional processes.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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Overall, however, multi-year experiments suggest that the arctic ecosystems most responsive to climate change are very likely to be those in which the environmental change is linked to a large change in nutrient inputs or soil nutrient turnover, and/or large changes in leaching or erosional losses of soil-available nutrients (Fig. 7.27).
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The Cherokee Plains ecoregion is a nearly flat erosional plain that is dominated by clayey, slowly to very slowly permeable soils; it is less irregular and more poorly-drained than the Osage Cuestas (40b).
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Soft clays of the White River Badlands (43h) form the dramatic erosional landscape of the “Wall.”
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The erosional material composing these foothills is coarser than the fine sediments of the adjacent Mesic Dissected Plains (43q).
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The gothic erosional landscape of the Little Missouri Badlands formed when the Little Missouri River was diverted along a steeper course by Pleistocene glaciers.
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For example, the Mackenzie and Yukon are both erosional rivers, while the Siberian rivers are depositional, especially the Ob for which the drainage basin includes marsh lowlands [25].
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