erodible

"The sand there is very fine and very erodible," he said.

As the first plants prove themselves, they will be planted in erodible areas, like hilltops.

Natural surfaces are rough and erodible to different degrees.

The removal of vegetation causes these soils to be highly erodible.

The soil of this region has been called the "most highly erodible soil on earth".

In 1985, Congress approved a program to remove up to 45 million acres of highly erodible cropland from farming.

The area is dominated by dolomite and highly erodible limestone, making caves numerous.

Much of the land is highly erodible.

In a number of regions of the earth, entire sectors of a country have become erodible.

The law requires all farmers to have Government-approved plans in place this year for controlling soil loss from "highly erodible land."

The program's original purpose was to take fragile, highly erodible land out of production at a time when Government stocks of grain were soaring.

Hoodoo Mountain lies in an area of high elevation ecosystems colonizing very erodible substrate.

They are highly erodible.

The reasons that particular decisions were made concerning incomplete protection, lower structures, and erodible materials were used remains in dispute.

A glacier encountering weaker rock at its base, will be able to erode deeper than when it experiences harder, less erodible rocks.

The bare intercanopy areas become highly erodible.

It also seeks to increase the number of highly erodible acres that are taken out of production and conserved by planting grass or trees.

Covered with shallow, highly erodible soils of low fertility, these heavily forested highlands are very sparsely inhabited.

Due to the rolling nature of the landscape on the Coteau, a lot of the land is also characterized as highly erodible.

Farms cropping highly erodible land and under production flexibility contracts must be in compliance with a conservation plan that protects this cropland.

Most of the land lies within the Idaho Batholith, a large and highly erodible geologic formation.

Mr. Christensen said that 162 farms were surveyed last year and that 6,320 acres were classified as highly erodible.

More than 10.5 million acres was added today to a national reserve of highly erodible farmland being taken out of production under a new Federal conservation program.

Dust from the Bodele may be seen as a simple coincidence of two key requirements for deflation: strong surface winds and erodible sediment.

These more easily erodible rocks overlie interstratal karst.