erosive

Example Sentences

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Astronomers will be able to watch them light up and evolve as the erosive power of sunlight gets to work.

From New York Times

“Anything that’s a feature on the Moon really risks being disturbed by wind, by any kind of erosive forces,” O’Leary says.

From The Verge

But because of the erosive power of ice, there is a lot of sand in Greenland.

From New York Times

Despite the region's heavy, erosive rainfall, the surface of the plateau has remained largely unchanged for some 70 million years, making it Earth's oldest known landscape.

From Science Magazine

Such scars could have formed only if ice was streaming past them at several hundred feet per year, essentially making the erosive blocks the Formula 1 race cars of the glacial world.

From New York Times