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Preferred term

erosion

Definition

  • [GEMET] The general process or the group of processes whereby the materials of Earth's crust are loosened , dissolved, or worn away and simultaneously moved from one place to another, by natural agencies, which include weathering, solution, corrosion, and transportation, but usually exclude mass wasting.

Broader concept

Note

  • [controlled by ] Staszewski 08.06.2013

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Arabic

  • تآكل

Bulgarian

  • Ерозия

Croatian

  • erozija

Czech

  • eroze

Danish

  • erosion

Dutch

  • erosie

Estonian

  • erosioon, uuristus

Finnish

  • eroosio

French

  • érosion

German

  • Erosion

Greek

  • διάβρωση

Hungarian

  • erózió

Italian

  • erosione

Latvian

  • erozija

Lithuanian

  • erozija

Norwegian

  • erosjon

Polish

  • erozja

Portuguese

  • erosão

Romanian

  • eroziune

Slovak

  • erózia

Slovenian

  • erozija

Spanish

  • erosión

Swedish

  • erosion

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/21285

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