GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -You can reduce soil erosion by: Maintaining a healthy, perennial plant cover. Mulching. Planting a cover crop – such as winter rye in vegetable gardens. Includes annual grasses, small grains, legumes and other types of vegetation planted to provide a temporary vegetative cover.

Detailed explanation-2: -Removing trees and plants, plowing fields, and overgrazing by livestock disrupts roots that stabilize sediment and soil. These human activities can increase erosion rates 10 to 100 times that of non-human geologic processes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The key climatic characteristics influencing erosion processes in a given territory include atmospheric precipitation, wind, air temperature, air humidity and solar radiation. The factors having a direct effect on soil erosion are atmospheric precipitation (water erosion) and wind (wind erosion).

Detailed explanation-4: -Agricultural activities such as clearing trees, the ploughing land to sow new seeds cause soil erosion. The grazing animals feed on the grasses and remove the vegetation from the land. Logging and Mining activities also disturb the land and leave the soil more prone to erosion.