denudation


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de·nude

(dĭ-no͞od′, -nyo͞od′)
tr.v. de·nud·ed, de·nud·ing, de·nudes
1. To divest of covering; make bare.
2. Geology To expose (rock strata) by erosion.
[Latin dēnūdāre : dē-, de- + nūdāre, to make bare (from nūdus, nude; see nogw- in Indo-European roots).]
de′nu·da′tion (dē′no͞o-dā′shən, -nyo͞o-, dĕn′yo͝o-) n.
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denudation

The wearing away of the land surface by the sum of such processes as weathering and erosion.
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Noun 1. [画像:denudation - the removal of covering]denudation - the removal of covering
remotion, removal - the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy"
disforestation, deforestation - the removal of trees
cornhusking - the act of removing the husks from ears of corn
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den·u·da·tion

n. denudación, privación de la cubierta de una superficie de una manera traumática, sea por cirugía, trauma, o por un cambio patológico.
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On the absence of intermediate varieties at the present day -- On the nature of extinct intermediate varieties; on their number -- On the vast lapse of time, as inferred from the rate of deposition and of denudation -- On the poorness of our palaeontological collections -- On the intermittence of geological formations -- On the absence of intermediate varieties in any one formation -- On the sudden appearance of groups of species -- On their sudden appearance in the lowest known fossiliferous strata.
But the amount of denudation which the strata have in many places suffered, independently of the rate of accumulation of the degraded matter, probably offers the best evidence of the lapse of time.
I am tempted to give one other case, the well-known one of the denudation of the Weald.
Only thus can we gain time, at all sufficient to explain the truly astonishing amount of denudation, which these great, though comparatively with most other ranges recent, mountains have suffered.
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In the Holocene, the transformations of the relief, including the already shaped valleys, were often only retouching and related mainly to human economic activity which led to an increase in denudation (Lang 2003; Smolska 2007; Szwarczewski 2009; Twardy et al.
The origin and evolution of small dry valleys in the last-glacial area on the example of the Pomeranian Lake District (Poland)/Erosioonilised kulutusorud Poola madalikel kui varskelt jaatumise alt vabanenud naidisala
* Class I: Complete denudation of facial root surface,
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Among them are unauthorized encroachments, haphazard construction, illegal deforestation for profit through indiscriminate felling off trees, lack of policy on forest protection and denudation of mountain slopes without any provisions for replanting.
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