Without the erosive forces of water, wind, and ice, rock debris would simply pile up where it forms and obscure from view nature's weathered sculptures. Although erosion is a natural process ...

Dust storms form when strong winds blow over soils composed of "erodible" and "mobilizable" materials—that is, soils sensitive to wind erosion. This is a very common phenomenon in vast desert ...

Wind causes waves to be produced in the water ... Erosion happens when waves wear away the land. Different types of erosion include hydraulic action where the force of the wave traps air into ...

It looks like the surface of another planet, but sastrugi is actually a wintertime phenomenon that’s quite common in the ...

Driftwood sometimes forms the focus for the initial accumulation ... bowl-, or saucer-shaped depressions or hollows formed by wind erosion of a pre-existing sandy substrate or dune (Figures ...

Erosion is all around us ... the air at many times the terminal velocity of rain drops of up to 9 m/s. As wind turbines have increased in size and diameter of their blades, this has noticeably ...