Sentences with phrase «dramatically slows erosion»

Armoring stops or dramatically slows erosion, and gradual - sloped, wide, sandy beaches over time give way to pebbly, steeper shorelines that aren't desirable to beach - spawning fishes — or humans.

Not exact matches

Erosion slowed dramatically as the ice sheet stabilized about 15 million years ago, he said.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..