Sentences with phrase «river erosion rates»

The study revealed landslides affected river erosion rates in two ways.

Researchers said rivers can cut through bedrock and this process is thought to be the major factor in controlling mountain erosion, however, the long - term preservation of some mountains is at odds with some of the underlying assumptions regarding river erosion rates in current models of river - based landscape evolution.

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When the water level in the reservoir drops, it increases the river's rate of erosion.

Now research on these three rivers, and seven other large river basins in the US Southeast, has, for the first time, precisely quantified this background rate of erosion.

In a telephone interview from India, where she was about to visit some Himalayan glaciers, Dr. Koppes noted that the highest rates of erosion by rivers and glaciers occur in areas of tectonic uplift — where the land is still rising.

Upon taking possession of the property, the Buyer learned from the Seller's handyman that the Seller had removed foliage from the property which had increased the rate of soil erosion caused by the river, and that the property had experienced ten feet of soil erosion in the past ten years.