Erosion is the process that wears away the river bed and banks. Erosion also breaks up the rocks that are carried by the river. Landslides are occasional, rapid movements of a mass of earth or ...

Weathering and erosion slowly chisel, polish, and buff Earth's rock into ever evolving works of art—and then wash the remains into the sea. The processes are definitively independent ...

The team studied almost 200 years' worth of maps, surveys and photographs to determine the extent of erosion. Each 25m (82ft) section of coastline was examined for positional changes. Researchers ...