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Erosive

Erosive meaning

Of or pertaining to erosion. | Causing or tending to cause erosion.

Example sentences (11)

By investing in gold through a Gold IRA, you can protect your retirement savings from the erosive effects of inflation.

Here, huge and highly erosive pre-Wisconsinian glaciers excavated the bedrock valley floor, and much smaller Wisconsinian glaciers deposited glacial debris.

Hikers passing by often add a stone, as a small bit of maintenance to counteract the erosive effects of severe weather.

However, erosive forces are also powerful shapers of the mountains.

It can be seen as this river, through the erosive action of water and karst, has plowed over time the rock forming chasms, reels and small waterfalls where the water abundant, first disappears and then reappears in the boulders and lush vegetation.

Mining of sand and coral has destroyed the natural coral reef that once protected several important islands, now making them highly susceptible to the erosive effects of the sea.

Nodules are associated with a positive RF ( rheumatoid factor ) titer and severe erosive arthritis.

Rapids occur where the bed material is highly resistant to the erosive power of the stream in comparison with the bed downstream of the rapids.

The most direct is the change in the erosive power of rainfall.

The single most erosive force over the last few million years has been large alpine glaciers, which have turned the previously V-shaped river-cut valleys into U-shaped glacial-cut canyons (such as Yosemite Valley and Hetch Hetchy Valley).

When affected by moving water or wind, particles that are eroded and held in suspension will increase the erosive power of the fluid that holds them by increasing the average density, viscosity and volume of the moving fluid.