To erode a stratum 5000 feet thick will require at this rate thirty million years.
Since rivers are known to erode their beds and banks, it is a fair presumption that, aided by the weather, they have excavated the valleys in which they flow.
Where storm waves first drag bottom they erode and deepen the sea floor, and sweep in sediment as far as the line where they break.
This limit of the level of the sea beneath which they cannot erode is known as baselevel.
They therefore erode but little until the talus fallen from the cliff is gradually built up beneath the sea to the level at which the waves drag bottom upon it and break.
Vigorous rivers well armed with waste make short work of cutting their beds to grade, and thus erode narrow, steep-sided gorges only wide enough at the base to accommodate the stream.
As the gradient, or rate of descent of its bed, is lowered, the velocity of the river is decreased until its lessening energy is wholly consumed in carrying its load and it can no longer erode its bed.
Erosion Streams erode their beds chiefly by means of their bottom load,--the stones of various sizes and the sand and even the fine mud which they sweep along.
This, with several other instances, has been taken to indicate a greater altitude for the land in preglacial times, since a river could not erode its channel to such a depth below sea-level.
As flash floods course through Palo Duro Canyon, the river uses its load to erode further the rocks over which it passes.
Because the various rock strata are of unequal hardness, they erode at different rates of speed.
As a result, there is a substantial defense imbalance that will erode fighting power.
Beyond prudence, however, it is clear that without a major threat to generate consensus and to rally the country around defense and defense spending, the military posture of the United States will erode as the defense budget is cut.
The tendency for a foreign body, whether hard like forceps, or soft like gauze pads, to erode its way into the intestine is very remarkable.
The capacity of a river to erode and carry away the rock material that lies along its course is dependent not only upon the velocity of the current, but also upon the hardness, the firmness of texture, and the solubility of the material.
Although intrenched, river meanders are still competent to scour and so undermine the outer bank, and with favoring conditions they may by this process erode extended “bottoms” out of the plateau.
The metaphysical qualities that come into play erode such morning somnambulations.
In private cold, my face burns a tallow white, toes flake in frostbite or erode every sensation.
It has been, and is being, created by sediments from the many torrents that erode the interior mountains.
They erode the mountains and deposit the sediment that created, and continues to add to, the lowlands, but the rivers flood during the seasons when there is local rainfall.
Drugs erode the capacity of students to perform in school, to think and act responsibly.
Drug Use and Learning Drugs erode the self-discipline and motivation necessary for learning.
This limit of the level of the sea beneath which they cannot erode is known as baselevel.
The feeble glacier occupying the right-hand slope was able in a very brief period to erode a depression far deeper than the normal agents of denudation were able to erode in a much longer period, i.
In an epoch of fixed climate a glacier system may so deeply and thoroughlyerode a mountain mass, that the former glaciers may either diminish in size or disappear altogether.
Oddly enough none of the supporters of opposing theories have replied to his arguments; instead they have sought evidence from other regions to show that ice cannot eroderock to an important degree.
Glaciers may be regarded as rivers of ice which erode their banks and bed in a manner similar to, but more rapidly than, streams of water.
Under certain conditions, however, the sea may erode land in one area and may return the transported material to the land in another area.
At any stage of deposition the waves engendered by storms were liable to erode the surface of the deposits already made, and new layers, discordant with those below, were likely to be laid down upon them.
Furthermore, the water is still active as a solvent agent after a surface has been reduced to so low a gradient that the run-off ceases to erode mechanically.
Overdeepening would be expected, because glaciers erode without reference to existing baselevels.
The Housatonic lowered the northern end of the limestone belt, in the region between New Milford and Stillriver village, faster than the smaller south-flowing stream was able to erode its bed.
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