erosive

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Someone needed to take another look at the bipedal tracks at Site A. But those same seasonal rains that gift us fossil bones and footprints also have the erosive power to take them away.

From Scientific American

"Having worked with lithium, I can tell you there is nothing safe about it," she noted of the highly caustic and erosive metal.

From Salon

The phenomenon involves erosive water released from a dam, which removes more of the finer particles and leaves behind the larger grains.

From Science Magazine

“It’s highly erosive,” says Paul Lucey, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, who was also not involved with the work.

From Science Magazine

But it was hard to know for sure that the atmosphere was the problem, as the erosive force of wind and water can erase these smaller features in decades, Kenkmann says.

From Science Magazine