Sentences with phrase «through erosion»

Deterioration in coastal conditions, for example through erosion of beaches and coral bleaching, is expected to affect local resources, e.g., fisheries, and reduce the value of these destinations for tourism.
How rising seas impact coastal municipalities through erosion, temporary flooding, and permanent inundation will very much depend on which city or town you are in.
The difference is nutrient run - off from the land through erosion as wall as human sources.
Is it possible that glaciers can enlarge their exits to the ocean through erosion?
Baremboym's work investigates the processes that trace and enact the potentiality of material through erosion and transfusion.
Artist Statement «Utah?s 1st National Monument?s name, natural bridge, is formed through erosion by water flowing in the bed of the canyon and gravity helping to collapse rock walls until the...
Vinebaum, living through the erosion of gains from the labor movement past, «wanted to create a space where the viewer is confronted with text.»
The development of the line had to be organic, and the best way to achieve that is through erosion
See this natural rock formation formed through erosion, at its best during rough seas when the waves crash in and around the arch.
It shall further be unlawful to bury any such carcass as mentioned in this section in any land along any stream or ravine, where it is liable to become exposed through erosion of the soil, or where such land is at any time subject to overflow.»
-- Geology: Study Rio Napo erosion and possible solutions to leeching of valuable soil through erosion.
In the new study, published June 5, in the online journal Nature Communications, Luo and colleagues used an innovative algorithm to more precisely calculate the volume of cavity space within Mars valleys and the amount of water that would have been needed to create those cavities through erosion over time.
I think it would be lost much more rapidly by ultraviolet degradation or through erosion by the solar wind.
Watersheds tend to concentrate mercury through erosion of mineral deposits and atmospheric deposition.
Monsoons have been shaving away material through erosion, reducing the weight of the mountain range and easing off the brakes, Iaffaldano says.
This stress can contribute to accelerated loss of marsh area through erosion in a region where marshes are already rapidly disappearing, due to high relative sea level rise.
It is replacing natural forests with monoculture and causing enormous loss of soil for trees through erosion.

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Relativism runs through the whole of our modern world - view: the assessment of nature as a directionless flux of chance events, the erosion of the absolute value of human life, the dismissal of historic religious authority as «out of date», and the ever shifting sands of personal and social morality.
Are evolutionists telling me that through random chance of erosion and weathering created those amazing statues?
Marshalling convincing scientific data, they tell us that the environmental degradation caused by massive pollution of air water and land, threatens the very life of earth — fast depletion of non renewal resources, indeed of species themselves, the thinning of the ozone layer that exposes all living creatures to the danger of radiation, the build up of gases creating the greenhouse effect, increasing erosion by the sea — all these are brought out through their research.
Traditional varieties and the wild species of rice are being lost through genetic erosion.
Nearly 61 to 62 gigatons of carbon are lost from this pool as soil organic matter is oxidized by the atmosphere through tillage and erosion.
Notwithstanding the effects of erosion due to wet steam acceleration through bends in the pipework, clean high - quality steam is not normally chemically corrosive in its gaseous state.
The introduction of trees to form agroforestry systems provided sources of firewood, timber, fruits and shade, but also helped in erosion control, protecting water courses through the stabilization of the soil and as wind breaks, regulating the velocity of the winds.
It looks like there are highly mental erosion coming through our fans, how could anyone find positives when loosing to a team like Stoke?.
Though Western media systems are going through a rapid and often painful transformation today with the rise of the internet and mobile platforms, the decline of paid print newspaper circulation, and the erosion of the largest free - to - air broadcast audiences, the ways in which governments provide direct and indirect support for the media have remained largely unchanged for decades.
Rick (my favorite paleoconservative), author / commentator William Cohan and I talked through a slew of topics sparked by Trump's first year in office, touching on everything from economics to the midterms to the erosion of political norms.
It is mud season in the Adirondack High Peaks, and state officials are urging hikers to protect trails from erosion by slogging through wet areas or simply sticking to lower elevations.
In his opening and closing remarks, Peter Van Scoyoc, a Democrat serving his second term on the town board, pointed to his record, and that of the sitting board, on open space preservation, water quality protection efforts, energy efficiency, social services, obtaining grants, and planning for the future through ongoing hamlet studies and creation of a plan that accounts for rising sea level and shoreline erosion.
«Through the Governor's ongoing leadership, this new funding for homeowners and actions to reduce boating speed limits will help homeowners recover as we reduce risks associated with coastal erosion
Since the first project of its kind in the U.S. at Coney Island, N.Y., in 1922, coastal managers have used beach nourishment — essentially importing sand to replace sediment lost through storms or erosion — to restore damaged beaches, but it is laborious and expensive.
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.
While 50 years of inorganic fertilization did increase soil organic carbon stocks in a long - term experiment in western Kansas, the practice seemingly failed to enhance soil aggregate stability — a key indicator of soil structural quality that helps dictate how water moves through soil and soil's resistance to erosion.
«Corals provide habitat to support fisheries that feed millions of people; generate jobs and income to local economies through recreation, tourism and fisheries; and protect coastlines from storms and erosion,» said NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco in a statement from the agency.
However, if erosion takes too much weight off the top, the mountain will try to rebuild and return to that critical angle through internal deformation and changes to faults inside the mountain.
Rising sea levels, generated by climate change, threaten the flying foxes» habitat and food resources through flooding, erosion, and contamination of freshwater supplies.
Rising sea levels, generated by climate change, pose a serious threat to the flying foxes» habitat and its food resources through flooding, erosion and contamination of freshwater supplies.
Like asbestos, these naturally occurring fibers are natural components of rocks and soils and a potential source of exposure especially if these fibers become airborne through natural erosion or human activities producing dust.
Climate change is also exacerbating storms, which worsen erosion through powerful waves.
In the new study, the researchers found that a fractured arm bone in newborn mice rapidly realigned through substantial movement of bone fragments rather than through bone remodeling — a slower process involving the simultaneous formation of new bone on one side and erosion of existing bone on the opposite side.
This will benefit reefs because although parrotfish erode reef substrate, the advantages they offer through the removal of fleshy macroalgal cover and promoting coral recruitment outweigh the negative effects of substrate erosion.
Drug use affects oral health through direct physiological routes such as dry mouth, an increased urge for snacking, clenching and grinding of teeth, and chemical erosion from applying cocaine to teeth and gums.
Erosion can move sediment through water, ice, or wind.
Sediment moves from one place to another through the process of erosion.
It has been modified through aeolian erosion showing transverse and longitudinal erosional features.
So, if you're about to enjoy a sour smoothie, drinking through a straw, avoiding swishing the smoothie in your mouth, and rinsing your mouth with water after drinking a sour smoothie may assist in reducing tooth enamel erosion.
The erosion of the Tower intensifies as the players climb up through the moving landform.
«Like Lambs to the Slaughter: The Erosion of the Cultured Citizen» is Part I of a series entitled Education through the Looking Glass which is a commentary on the role of politics and its effect on critical thinking and reflection in education.
The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.
Any direct or indirect erosion of Impact Aid through a voucher program will reduce the Impact Aid funding currently going to these districts, and would also place a great financial burden on the local community, which would be left to fund public schools with an already low level of state and local tax revenue.
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