Sentences with phrase «carry eroded soil»
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When the river overflows its banks, it carries the soils from the floodplain and eroded upland agricultural soils down - stream creating sand dunes, mud flats, and deltas.»
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New research by scientists at the University of Vermont and Imperial College, London, published in the February 2015 issue of the journal Geology, show that eroded soil, carried in rivers like this one, accelerated dramatically in the wake of European forest - clearing and intensive agriculture in North America.
A recent assessment carried out by the JRC estimates that water erodes 970 million tonnes of soil every year in the EU.