denudation

To say that any complete denudation of the writer occurs in the successful work is, according to me, a romantic exaggeration.

The denudations look like cow paths cut through sage brush — invasive affronts on the landscape.

Weathering intensity data further indicate that soil chemical denudation rates increase proportionally with erosion rates.

Physical weathering must be specified every time as well as chemical weathering and, in the first case, terms such as “mechanical erosion” or “physical denudation” would be preferable.

And if there is a desire to make amends for the drought, we have what we call a flood and blame it on the weather instead of on our precipitous denudation of the watersheds.