Erosion is the act of corroding, destroying, consuming, spending slowly and continuously. For example: dental erosion.
Erosion is a wear process that works by transforming and shaping the earth's crust. This natural process can be triggered by the action of water, wind, glaciers, causing rain erosion, marine, fluvial, wind and glacial erosion.
Erosion is one of the main problems of environmental destruction, since the soil, together with other elements of nature, is the basis of all life on the planet.
Logging
Deforestation is one of the main causes of soil erosion and the loss or removal of vegetation cover from forests, fields, savannahs, etc. In a forest, trees serve as a shield for raindrops, which run down the trunks, infiltrating in the soil, avoiding the direct impact of rain with the soil and its roots help to retain it, preventing its breakdown. Bare soil is an easy target for rainwater and wind to exert their erosive and destructive action.
silting
Silting is the deposit of sand in the river bed resulting from erosion caused by the removal of vegetation cover from its banks, with that, rainwater drag a large amount of land, forming sandbanks along its bed, reducing its capacity, its navigability and often modifying its route.
marine erosion
Marine erosion is the result of the force of the sea water that modifies the relief on the coasts, destroying the rocky walls and forming sediments. Marine currents move these sediments, added to those coming from the continent, and deposit them in the coastal zone, forming beaches.
river erosion
Fluvial erosion is the action carried out by river waters, which break up the rocks and transport this material, which is deposited along the bed in places where the sedimentation process occurs.
At the mouth of the river, the formation of deltas can occur, which are fan-shaped fluvial sediment deposits that advance into the sea.
wind erosion
Wind erosion is caused by the wind, which, when carrying sand particles and hitting the rocks, provokes transforming actions. It is a more common form of erosion in coastal, desert and semiarid regions, wind erosion gives rise to the most diverse forms of rocks. Winds also change the relief by moving dunes and sand.
glacial erosion
Glacial erosion occurs in regions with a cold and temperate climate. It is caused by the sliding of ice, accumulated on the slopes of high mountains, carrying with it a large part of the surface rocks, which causes the valleys to widen and deepen.
