Erosion

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-010045",
  "term": "Erosion",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Removal of soil by water or wind.\n\n2. The process where soil and other matter are worn away by rain, stream currents, and wind.\n\n3. The removal of sediment or rock from a point in the landscape.\n\n4. The wearing away of soil by wind or water, intensified by land-clearing practices related to farming, residential or industrial development, road building, or logging.\n\n5. The wearing away of the land surface by wind or water. Erosion occurs naturally from weather or runoff but is often intensified by man's land-clearing practices.\n\n6. Wearing away of soil by timing water, wind, or ice; erosion is the process by which the earth's surface is shaped and occurs even in remote, uninhabited areas at a slow rate (geologic erosion); of more concern is accelerated erosion caused by people's activities.\n\n7. The disruption or movement of soil by wind, water or ice, occurring naturally or as a result of land use practices.\n\n8. The wearing away of land surface by wind or water, intensified by land-clearing practices related to farming, residential or industrial development, road building, or logging.\n\n9. The wearing down of land by wind or water. Erosion can be made worse by certain types of farming and logging, road building, and clearing land for development.\n\n10. The mechanical removal of sedimentary material by gravity, running water, moving ice, or wind; in the context of coastal settings erosion refers to the landward retreat of a shoreline indicator such as the water line, the berm crest, or the vegetation line; the loss occurs when sediments are entrained into the water column and transported from the source.\n\n11. When soils are depleted/reduced by wind or water.\n\n12. Process in which a material is worn away by a stream of liquid (water) or air, often due to the presence of abrasive particles in the stream.\n\n13. Removal of material by water, wind, or ice.\n\n14. In hydrologic terms, wearing away of the lands by running water, glaciers,winds, and waves, can be subdivided into three process: Corrasion, Corrosion, and Transportation. Weathering, although sometimes included here, is a distant process which does not imply removal of any material\n\n15. The detachment and movement (including transport and deposition by flowing water) of soil and rock material by an agent such as water.\n\n16. Mechanical removal of sedimentary material by gravity, running water, moving ice, or wind; in the context of coastal settings erosion refers to the landward retreat of a shoreline indicator such as the water line, the berm crest, or the vegetation line; the loss occurs when sediments are entrained into the water column and transported from the source.\n\n17. Disruption or movement of soil by wind, water or ice, occurring naturally or as a result of land use practices.\n\n18. Wearing away of the land surface by running water, glaciers, winds, and waves. The term erosion is usually preceded by a definitive term denoting the type or source of erosion such as gully erosion, sheet erosion, or bank erosion.",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Nearshore Terrestrial Ecosystems Glossary",
    "Estuaries Glossary",
    "Watershed Protection Glossary",
    "Pesticides Glossary",
    "Aquatic Biodiversity Glossary",
    "Drinking Water Technical & Legal Terms",
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "Student's Guide to Global Climate Change",
    "Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-level Rise Glossary and Acronyms",
    "Resilience and Adaptation in New England (RAINE) Glossary",
    "USGS Water Science Glossary of Terms",
    "USGS Geology in the Parks Glossary",
    "NOAA National Weather Service Glossary",
    "USDA Agricultural Research Service Engineered Information Systems for Natural Resources Glossary",
    "Coastal Sensitivity Glossary",
    "NPS Agriculture Glossary; Nonpoint Pollution Source from Agriculture Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/erosion/"
}