I use it much as a geologist does the word denudation -- for an agent, expressing the result of several combined actions. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
I have already referred to the rapid denudation which is going on in these islands, and to the extent to which they have been denuded within comparatively recent times. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference
From about 150 millions years ago the region experienced a process of denudation. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Mountains of Altai, Russian Federation] Reference
We went on again, the track now really dangerous from denudation and slipperiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Here and there, as a result of denudation, a portion of one of them appears capping a hilltop. From Wordnik.com. [Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation] Reference
In the case of the great faults the upheaval along a given line would itself facilitate the denudation. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
The next ordeal through which the Republicans had to pass began with the denudation of the two States. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
If denudation of the Sudan's forests continues at the present rate, they will be gone by the year 2005. From Wordnik.com. [3. Conditions of Acceptance for Solar Cookers] Reference
Recent DNA analysis, however, has given us some idea of when and where the great denudation took place. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Nakedness in Homo sapiens] Reference
America of the intermittent elevation of the land, together with the denudation and deposition of sediment. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #8 « Climate Audit] Reference
Of course, under the heavy tropical rains this denudation is still going on, though in a greatly modified form. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
There has been and there will be no denudation or impairment of the forces which are at work in Flanders, and both the. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Intrusive igneous rocks can be brought to the surface of the Earth by denudation and by a variety of tectonic processes. From Wordnik.com. [Rock cycle] Reference
Since an arroyo promptly collects to itself all surface runoff, vegetation is deprived of needed moisture and denudation follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference
We also see the rising of mighty temples and monumental buildings, but this again only contributed to the denudation of the country. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
Not a stick of young or old wood was left to mark the boundary of a future clearing, not even an angle to mark the limit of the denudation. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
It has been my lot at various times to witness the institution known as "home" in a state of denudation, as my scientific friends would call it. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
The stone is an effect of denudation and is similar to other isolated sandstone rocks scattered about the south of England, e.g., the "Toad" Rock at. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
This in turn is aggravating the denudation of the some 5,000 seized commercial farms as their new owners seek to make a quick profit by selling firewood. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
At one time supposed to have been brought to their present position by glacial action, they are now said to be, and undoubtedly are, the result of denudation. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
In one word, all these hills were formerly part of a continuous formation, and owe their present outline and their isolated position to a colossal denudation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Norway and Sweden have been shipping timber for some centuries, and yet seem to need no laws to restrain the denudation of their hills; certainly not to encourage rainfall. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Degradation continued in many of the more susceptible environments, especially alluvial flats, with denudation of vegetation leading to the formation of deeply eroded gullies. From Wordnik.com. [Victoria Plains tropical savanna] Reference
Compared with subaerial denudation, marine abrasion is a comparatively feeble agent. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
I am beginning to suspect that present distribution is an affair rather of denudation than migration. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
The horizontal plane of the sea now intersects an old land surface roughened by subaerial denudation. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
Indiscriminate construction activities result in denudation of greenery and cutting down of existing trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
And they see the denudation of the Malay self respect chiefly as a result of a weak and clueless Malay leadership. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
The areas where the soil is removed face denudation of greenery and lowering of ground water table, it was pointed out. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
The process of denudation is going on rapidly wherever the original forests are girdled (a common way of preparing for crops), or cut away. From Wordnik.com. [On Horseback] Reference
While subaerial denudation reduces the land to baselevel, the sea is sawing its edges to WAVE BASE, i.e. the lowest limit of the wave's effective wear. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
As rivers pass their prime, as denudation lowers the relief of the region, less waste and finer is washed over the gentler slopes of the lowering hills. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
The second is a stripping off of extraneous images and a denudation of the heart, so that a man may be free from images, and attachments to every creature. From Wordnik.com. [Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages] Reference
As deposition in the sea corresponds to denudation on the land, we are able to make a general estimate of the rate at which the former process is going on. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
The symbol of marine biodiversity, however, is fast disappearing from Japan's coastal regions in a phenomenon called isoyake, or denudation of rocky shores. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Either, then, the earth is very young and the agents of denudation have not yet had time to do their work, or they have been opposed successfully by other forces. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
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