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Erosion Facts

The document discusses how erosion from weathering and waves undermines sea cliffs over time, causing the coastline to recede inland and potentially damaging property and infrastructure near the cliffs. It also describes how erosion can cause landslides and deposits of sediment that can damage property, form tsunamis, and silt up harbors and reservoirs.

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Erosion Facts

The document discusses how erosion from weathering and waves undermines sea cliffs over time, causing the coastline to recede inland and potentially damaging property and infrastructure near the cliffs. It also describes how erosion can cause landslides and deposits of sediment that can damage property, form tsunamis, and silt up harbors and reservoirs.

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The powerful impact of waves is constantly eroding sea cliffs.

Little by little, this undermines the base of the cliff, causing collapses. Over time this causes the coastline to recede inland. For people with property near the cliff this can mean the loss of a valuable financial asset or a treasured home. Roads, farmland and natural ecosystems at the cliff edge will suffer the same fate. Landslides and Related Disasters As well as loss of land above sea cliffs, erosion on cliffs and slopes can also cause deaths and damage to property at the foot of erosion site. Aside from people or property buried or otherwise damaged by the flow of soil, mud and debris, sudden deposition of large volumes of rock and soil into water can cause tsunamis. Indeed the largest type of tsunamis, so-called megatsunamis, such as that which occurred near Vajont Dam in Italy in 1963, are caused not by underwater earthquakes, as is usually the case with tsunamis, but by masses of rock and earth dropping suddenly into the water. Erosion causes fine mud known as silt to be washed off the land and into water courses, which carry it downstream. In the past this erosion was a valued means of improving the fertility of farmland. Most famously, the ancient Egyptians farmed on the banks of the Nile after yearly

flooding had deposited nutrient rich silt over the ground. With the building of modern facilities, silting represents a problem to harbors and lakes formed by the damming of rivers. The water courses become filled with silt and become inoperable. The lake behind Aswan dam which now cuts across the Nile is rapidly filling with silt, lowering its capacity and thus its usefulness as a source of water and hydroelectric power.
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