Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order ... or on the top part of the depositional landform position's soil profiles. The distance that eroded sediments travel is a function ...

Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...

Water erosion is the most widespread form of soil ... land forming - the use of excavation equipment to truncate or add to soil profiles, changing soil depth and surface topography loess plateau ...

In a study that should concern more than just farmers, researchers have shown that agriculture has increased the rate of soil erosion in the Midwestern US by 10 to 1,000 times. If this continues ...

Study: Redistributing soil can restore nutrients, improve water retention, and significantly boost crop yields on eroded ...

Conservation districts often rent conservation-tillage equipment to farmers. But this may be a first: The Crawford County, Iowa, Soil and Water Conservation District is helping farmers purchase ...

They conduct research on soil degradation or erosion, or on movement of substances such as nutrients and pesticides through the soil profile. Sometimes soil scientists identify problems such as ...

Erosion is the process that wears away the river ... making it heavy and liable to slide. Soil creep is a very slow movement, occurring on very gentle slopes because of the way soil particles ...

A number of stages were involved in the original headland shape becoming eroded to the present coastal landscape. Headlands and bays are most likely to be formed in areas where there are ...