The eyes and cheeks are red with the corrosive tears, and the ichor of some herpetic eruptions erodes far and wide the contiguous parts, and is pungently salt to the taste, as some patients have informed me.
When the aneurysm presses on the vertebræ and erodes them, the symptoms simulate those of spinal caries, particularly if, as sometimes happens, symptoms of compression paraplegia ensue.
This type of formationerodes rapidly and is the basis of much of the poor alluvial lowland soil.
The river also erodes by hydraulic action as loose rock fragments are lifted and moved by the force of the stream's current.
Thus, the volume and velocity of the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River make it possible--especially during flood periods--for the river to carry a large load of rock particles which effectively erodes the stream channel.
On the other hand, a stream erodes its banks at all stages in its history, and with graded rivers this process, called lateral erosion, or planation, is specially important.
The rate at which a stream erodes its bed depends in part upon the nature of the rocks over which it flows.
Near the terminus, where weight and motion are the least, it erodes least, and may instead deposit a sheet of ground moraine, much as a river builds a flood plain in the same part of its course as it approaches maturity.
A glacier erodesits bed and banks in two ways,--by abrasion and by plucking.
It must here be observed, that both the acid and the alcaline solution, or common salt and water, and even water alone, in these experiments much erodes the plates of zinc, and somewhat tarnishes those of silver.
Finally, circumvention of the budget process by the executive branch erodes oversight and review by Congress.
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