weathering vs erosion
erosion
Definitions
noun
- (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
- a gradual decline of something
- erosion by chemical action
- condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind
Examples
The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden.
Exact positions of the 120 pegs will depend on the state of the beach due to the recent coastal erosion.
Marginal and fragile lands cleared for export crop production rapidly become infertile and erosion prone.
