Erosion

Benton Smith April 26th, 2018 PES 4520 Improving a Poor Lawn Soil Soil fertility is the foundation for healthy grass. Improving soil quality can be more challenging on an established lawn rather than growing a new one. The most important thing for soil is air and water and their ability to be absorbed by the roots. This helps nutrients to be absorbed also. A degraded soil typically loses its ability to supply food and habitation to living organisms, in it’s surrounding. Characteristics of a…

Period 1 Water Erosion Purpose The purpose of this lab is to examine the streamflow and how it removes soil from the banking over time. Background Information “Water erosion comes in several different forms with various causes. No matter the differences, we humans can have a large impact on our water quality and erosion rates. While the causes of erosion by water are generally natural, we can play a large role in reducing water erosion, and preventing water pollution”(GEI Works Erosion…

catastrophic issues to communities and habitats is coastal erosion. Coastal erosion is defined as a decrease in shoreline due to a physical event that could either be a short or long-term event. Examples of short-term events are waves and hurricanes; a long-term event could be in the rise in sea level (Pilkey, Cooper, 2004). In Florida, hurricanes are common due to warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, thus creating massive amount of coastal erosion in Florida’s coastline affecting the communities…

Adriana Alvarado Period 1 Nov. 7, 2017 Wind Erosion Background Information: Wind is caused by changes in pressure and temperature in the Earth’s atmosphere. Wind erosion occurs when rocks and sediments are picked up and moved to another place by ice, water, wind, or gravity. Wind weathering usually occurs during the rainfall. Due to the temperature changes of the sea caused by the sun, the temperature of the surface rises, and the land heats the air above it. This heat causes wind to move…

Coastal Erosion in Hawaii Introduction: Coastal Erosion is a natural process along the worlds coastlines that occurs through the actions of currents and waves and results in the loss of sediment in some places and accretion in other places. (center for ocean solutions n.d.) Hawaii is one of the most eroded places in the world along the coast. Hawaii is located 4165km West of California and the mainland. (Map of Hawaii. 2014) The two main islands that are been worked on the most for…

coastal erosion is becoming a major problem around the globe and within the UK, this can particularly be seen at Aldbrough, on the Holderness coast. The cliffs on this coastline are particularly soft and are made of a mixture of clay, silt, sand, and gravel. This makes the Holderness coastline extremely susceptible to coastal erosion, and presently erosion rates in this area are estimated to be around 1.5 metres per year, and since the roman time, 30 villages have been lost. This coastal erosion…

I. Summary This paper aims to address the topic of beach erosion. I will start with some background on the topic about what beach erosion is, why it is a potential hazard, and where its effects are being seen today. I will then get into how erosion specifically effects beaches, and delve into the various causes of beach erosion such as rising sea levels, tidal patterns, and human development. After that I am going to discuss how erosion effects the land. More specifically on how it effects the…

Dental erosion is the wearing down of tooth enamel by acids. Different types of beverages cause dental erosion (Olde, 2015). By measuring the mass of egg shells before and after they are exposed to these common beverages will determine which beverages contribute the most towards dental erosion and tooth decay. The purpose of using egg shells is because they are made of calcium the same element that the human tooth is made of (Goldblatt, Samberson, Diamond, 2013). To test the effects of common…

structures to limit erosion. The breakwater, caisson, and rubble mound/cement filled caisson are three offshore structures that have been proven to constrain erosion. The reason for this study is to figure out which offshore structure most adequately dwindles waves' effect on the shoreline. My hypothesis is that the rubble mound/cement filled caisson will be the most effective structure. The question this study seeks to answer is a simple one: how can we most effectively limit shoreline erosion?…

Article 1: Coastal erosion and the ban on hard structures In this article it mainly talks about the controversy and problems with coastal erosion and the ban on hard structures. A rule was put into place to help preserve the beaches. People are helping to contribute to the coastline and its problems. Erosion is an easy thing to notice when at the beach. When waves crash they are not crashing in straight lines. Instead they crash horizontally. This is what is causing sand to be having non-stop…