Soil erosion definition

Soil erosion means the wearing away of land by the action of wind, water, gravity, or a combination of wind, water, or gravity.
Soil erosion means the movement of soil by wind or water into state waters or onto lands in the
Soil erosion means when land or soil is diminished or worn due to wind or water.

Examples of Soil erosion in a sentence

  • Soil erosion can be prevented with landscaping (i.e. straw, soil or ground covers).


More Definitions of Soil erosion

Soil erosion means the stripping of soil and weather rock from land creating sediment for transportation by water, wind, or ice, and enabling formation of new sedimentary deposits.
Soil erosion means the wearing away of land by the action of wind, water, gravity or a combination thereof.
Soil erosion means the wearing away of land by
Soil erosion means any removal and/or loss of soil by the action of water, ice, gravity or wind. Erosion includes both the detachment and transport of soil particles.
Soil erosion. Due to the steep slopes in the Lepenec gorge, this part of the project area has significant soil erosion potential.5 However, the lithology under the soils (bedrock) is not suitable for strong or severe erosion processes. There is a slightly higher intensity of erosion rate in the northern part of the project area near the village Blace, while the southern part of the project area in the Skopje Plain, which is very flat, is characterized by very low erosion and dominance of deposition. • Forest fire: Forest fires in the period from 1999 to 2019, destroy an average of about 9,076.51 ha of forest per year. In the project area, the two major forest fires were recorded by the PE National Forests from Skopje in the period between 2015 and 2020; the first one on Stenkovec locality, cadastral municipality (CM) Gluvo-Brazda, where 5.61 ha of Austrian pine young forest was destroyed and the second one in the forest sections 25a, 26a, 27a and 28a of the forest management unit "Skopska Crna Gora" on Blace locality in XX Xxxxx, where 000,00 xx xx xxx xxxxxx xxxx was destroyed.
Soil erosion. Means the loss of soil as the result of the action of the natural elements, e.g. water, wind, drought, and attrition, or from other inappropriate activities, e.g. agricultural or other use or development of the land that results in the washing away or loss of the soil.
Soil erosion means the detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments by water, wind, ice or gravity.