What are some of the affects that the Hydrolic Cycle has on erosion?
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The hydrolic cycle is the main cause of erosion.  Rain soaks into the ground.  To much rain can saturate the ground with water, and if there are not enough plants the rain soaked land can be too heavy and you will get mud slides.  Rain also forms runoff in the forms of streams, creeks, rivers and deltas.  Erosion occurs in all these forms of runoff.  It can be good because minerals are pulled from the dirt and redistributed for better farm land.  However erosion can also cause disasters like what happened in New Orleans after Katrina.  Erosion had caused the entire city to sink below sea level, so when the dikes collapsed the water flooded the city.
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Very complicated answer - sorry... you'll need to spend time reading these links.  the term is "erosion" - These will get you started.....\n\nhttp://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/browse/glacflds/glacflds.htm\n\nhttp://www.afrol.com/News2002/nig002_floods_erosion.htm\n\nhttp://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/MNR/water/p766.html
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during manufacturing processec, the enviroment go true many effects some of theese effects are pollution of the athmosohere that is the oxygen issometimes being polluted and alsoif waste is not mannaged, it can also cause land pollution thats land degradation.
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The short answer is that soil erosion will tend to reduce harvests in areas where soil is lost and increase harvests where soil is deposited.\n\nIt isn't a coincidence that the earliest civilisations all grew up along rivers: The Nile, The Tigris, The Euphrates. All those rivers flood annually and deposit large amounts of highly fertile soil eroded from further upstream. That erosion allowed those river valleys to produce the largest agricultural harvests in the world.\n\nEven today much of our agriculture is dependent on soil erosion. We stll farm the banks of many major rivers such as the Misissipi and Amazon because the depisited soils make those areas highly fertile\n\nIn contrast the mountainous headwaters of those same rivers are highly unproductive because the soil gets washed away every year. As a result the soils are very thin and the land is totally unsuitable for plant agriculture.
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The normal cycle is (very simplified): rain, transportation to sea, evaporation.\n\nThe main thing that mankind does to change this is after the rain has fallen and before it reaches the sea.  The main thing being irrigation which diverts water from the river into the surrounding land.  Obviously when water is soaked into the ground it cannot evaporate and so the 'residence time' in this part of the cycle is increased.\nBuilding damns and other structures (ie. cities) will also have similar effects by diverting the natural course of a river.\nWith global warming comes another problem.  Obviously the warmer something is the more energy it has.  This extra energy causes an unstable atmosphere leading to increased rainfall in some areas and less in others.  Rising sea temperature, which is also connected to global warming, will increase the rate of evaporation (which is why there are more hurricanes in the Atlantic).
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Forest cover tends to create areas of groundwater recharge and generally slows runoff. Trees tend to buffer the speed which rainfall hits the ground and because they often create areas covered with organic material like leaf litter, the ground has more time to absorb rainfall before it runs off. Bare ground will be subject to erosion as well as higher rates of runoff. \n\nThe burning of trees may contribute to CO2, but is probably insignificant because it is a one time event. The removal of the trees is likely to be accompanied by a long term loss of soil organics, which will also contribute CO2 over time. The real change may be through albedo effects and changes in rainfall related to loss of trees may be an even bigger factor. In Brazil,when trees were removed to be replaced with even darker colored soil, the average temperature of the area increased by about 3 degrees C. Most cities have a heat island around them, often 10% warmer, due to changes in albedo. The lack of trees may change the rainfall patterns, and some hypotheses actually predict that even rain drop size may change. A study in Amazonia known as the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment is investigating these ideas.
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What your actually thinking of are baffles. These cause the water to travel in a zig zag way or even perpendicular to flow direction. This slows the water by taking its Kinetic Energy and so reduces wear on other structures or machinery
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Losing any plant can drastically affect the local environment.  Loss of the phlox (which grows on sandy soil) is bound to have serious erosion consequenses as the roots of the phlox bind the soil together.  Insects will lose a source of nectar and so the food chain will suffer further up.  \nYou may find the site belwo of interest...;
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Erosion is caused mainly by inadequate handling of the ground (but it is a natural process). It depends on the composition of the soil (more sands, more erosion; more clay, less erosion).\n\nTo prevent it, ' the main one is to keep the ground covered '.\n\nThe covering protects against the impact of rain, as an umbrella, preventing the torrent formation. It is important to reduce the speed of the draining of the water and its impact in the ground.\n\nIf the covering of the ground well will be made, with more than 30% of the covered surface, the risks of the erosion diminishes more than in 60%. The direct plantation is a good technique to be used too.
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Anything specific you want to know?  You could look up glaciers (they cause erosion), river erosion, sedimentation will be linke to it.  Look up "KS4 Chemistry erosion"
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wind damage for some distance inland with most of the damage close to shore.  The storm surge can tear down buildings and drag them to the sea and it can wash large amount of beach out to sea (extreme erosion).  The rainfall can cause flooding in low lieing areas.\n\nIt depends on the category of the storm (1 being weakest wind, 5 being strongest), how close to shore you are, the geography of the region, the preparedness of the region hit (places that are hit often have building codes that minimize damage) and how slow the storm is moving.  A hurricane that decides to just sit on you for awhile can do a lot of damage.
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Erosion (note spelling) is the displacement of solids (soil, mud, rock and other particles) by the agents of wind, water or ice, by downward or down-slope movement in response to gravity or by living organisms (in the case of bioerosion). Erosion is distinguished from weathering, which is the decomposition of rock and particles through processes where no movement is involved, although the two processes may be concurrent.\n\nErosion is an intrinsic natural process but in many places it is increased by human land use. Poor land use practices include deforestation, overgrazing, unmanaged construction activity and road or trail building. However, improved land use practices can limit erosion, using techniques like terrace-building and tree planting.\n\nA certain amount of erosion is natural and, in fact, healthy for the ecosystem. For example, gravels continually move downstream in watercourses. Excessive erosion, however, can cause problems, such as receiving water sedimentation, ecosystem damage (including dead fish) and outright loss of soil.
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Vegetation is probably the most important physical factor influencing soil erosion. A good cover of vegetation shields the soil from the impact of raindrops. It also binds the soil together, making it more resistant to runoff. A vegetative cover provides organic matter, slows runoff, and filters sediment. Deforestation is of course a huge factor in this case.\n\nThe climatic factors that influence erosion are rainfall amount, intensity, and frequency. During periods of frequent rainfall, a greater percentage of the rainfall will become runoff. This is due to high soil moisture or saturated conditions\n\nTemperature is another climatic factor influencing erosion. While frozen soil is highly resistant to erosion, rapid thawing of the soil surface brought on by warm rains can lead to serious erosion. Temperature also influences the type of precipitation. Falling snow does not erode, however, heavy snow melts in the spring can cause considerable runoff damage. \n\nTemperature also influences the amount of organic matter that collects on the ground surface and incorporates with the topsoil layer. Areas with warmer climates have thinner organic cover on the soil. Organic matter protects the soil by shielding it from the impact of falling rain and soaking up rainfall that would otherwise become runoff.\n\nin conclusion the change of any of these will increase it, the primary cause is of course vegetation cover and deforestation, canopy coverage and gradient run off.... the less trees, the quicker the soil erosion, the more minerals in the soil, the slower soil erosion.\n\ni hope this answered your question
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Dams and levees change the course of rivers.  Farmig, forestry, and suburban development lead to erosion.  Mining can change the forms of mountains.
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I think that what you are asking about might be better called coastal deposition.\n\nOver the span of geologic time the sea level has changed dramatically. As the sea level has moved up and down over time the coastal erosion process has created continental shelves that are covered in deposits eroded from dry land around some continents. This process has also helped shape the coastlines of the continents. \n\nOne of the more spectacular examples of coastal deposition are river deltas. The sediment carried by the river is deposited as the flow of river water slows. This tends to sort the sediments according to the energy level of the water that is flowing into the open ocean. First larger grains like gravel and pebbles settle down, and as the river slows, sand, and finally clay size particles settle out of the water. Many river deltas have built up sediment deposits that are several miles thick and cover areas as large as some states. Most of southern Louisiana is a river delta deposit. \n\nAlong many coasts there is a predominant wind direction that helps to build coast long-shore currents. These currents move parallel to the coastline and will cause sediment accumulations (from rivers) such as sand bars and islands to slowly migrate in one direction. Much of the sand on beaches is actually slowly migrating along the shore. As heavier winter waves move the sand offshore, the sand also tends to move along the shore and sometimes temporarily moves back up onto the beach at a new location. \n\nAnother geologic process that is involved in coastal change is both uplift and subsidence. Uplift is taking place on some coasts due to tectonic plate motion. Other coasts are subsiding, or sinking, due to both faulting and slow compaction of underlying sediments. This sort of subsidence is taking place along the Gulf Coast of the US where there are large growth faults that parallel the coast that are sinking towards the Gulf. Sediment deposited thousands and millions of years ago is still settling in some areas and this leads to loss of coastal wetlands and rising local sea level. \n\nIn other areas coastlines are being changed by local erosion of uplifted sediments (e.g. California). Landslides carry hillsides down to the coastline. Another change in many coastlines is being caused by a geologic process called isostacy. As glaciers accumulated across North America during the last ice age, they weighed down that part of the earth's crust and caused it to sink into the asthenosphere. The glaciers melted long ago, but the areas that were covered by glaciers are still rising. This creates a sort of teeter-totter effect, where some coastlines like parts of the East Coast of the US and the Louisiana coast are sinking. \n\nInformation on isostatic rebound:\nhttp://www.homepage.montana.edu/~geol445/hyperglac/isostasy1/\n\nMississippi River Delta:\nhttp://www.lacoast.gov/geography/basins/mr/\n\nExplanation of long shore drift:\nhttp://www.cofc.edu/CGOInquiry/longshoredrift.htm\n\nGood explanation of barrier islands:\nhttp://www3.csc.noaa.gov/beachnourishment/html/geo/barrier.htm\n\nA very good illustration of differential erosion in a coastal setting:\nhttp://www.rgs.edu.sg/events/geotrip/stack.html\n\nUN Coastal Types:\nhttp://www.oceansatlas.com/servlet/CDSServlet?status=ND0yNzYwJmN0bl9pbmZvX3ZpZXdfc2l6ZT1jdG5faW5mb192aWV3X2Z1bGwmNj1lbiYzMz0qJjM3PWtvcw~~
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Jetties and sea walls cause sand and silt to be deposited on their down-current side.  Example: The long jetty near the airport.\n\nWetlands are drained for development thus removing the buffer that wetlands provide against storm surges and flooding.  Example: Burnt Bridge Creek area - Lacamas Creek Enterprises Inc. filled approximately 1.2 acres of wetlands
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When it rains, it can do one of two things... be absorbed into the ground OR runoff into low-lying areas.\n\nSeveral factors can determine whether rain will become groundwater or runoff.\n\n1.)Type of soil - sandy soils are more porous and allows water to pass through more easily than those such as clay soils. Therefore soil type will determine drainage.\n2.)Type & amount of vegetation - Vegetation can either allow runoff by inhibiting drainage or can allow for the slow down of water movement which would allow it to be absorbed. It just depends on how much & the type.\n3.)Slope/steepness of an area - steeper areas are more likely to lead to runoff rather than absorbtion.\n4.)Ground saturation levels - if the ground is already saturated w/ water it will not hold anymore & will lead to runoff.\n\nDepth can be determined by...\n1.)Depth of bedrock or basement rock - This could be a nonporous/impermeable rock which just means that it won't allow water to move through. If the bedrock type won't allow drainage then that is where the water will stop.\n2.)The depth of the water table - if the water table is deeper, then the deeper the water will have to travel before reaching it.