Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...

Although erosion is a natural process, abusive land-use practices such as deforestation and overgrazing can expedite erosion and strip the land of soils needed for food to grow.

Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order ... methanogenesis: is the process of formation of methane from the decomposition of organic matter by a group of microbes known as ...

Erosion is the process that wears away the river ... making it heavy and liable to slide. Soil creep is a very slow movement, occurring on very gentle slopes because of the way soil particles ...

A study of 82 sites in 21 counties by Iowa State University showed that in the 50 years from 1959, soil structure and levels of organic matter had degraded while acidity had increased. “Erosion ...

SOM improves soil structure and reduces erosion, leading to improved water ... the original carbon is retained in the soil through the formation of humus, a product that often gives carbon-rich ...

soil formation, description, classification, survey and use. Field and laboratory techniques of soil analysis. A survey of soils and their management. Focuses on the role of soils in the environment; ...

Gully erosion is increasing the severity of land degradation in India.What are gullies?A gully is a common landform system ...

This is called differential erosion. The erosion occurs due to a number of different processes caused by the sea. Hydraulic action is when the waves smash against the coastline and the force of ...

The Double Arch has been subject to spalling and erosion from weather, wind and rain since its formation in the late Triassic ...

While wind erosion—the process by which wind moves soil across a landscape—is natural, Gill said it has been exacerbated by human land use, drought and declining water resources, making the U ...