EARTH SCIENCE
GROUNDWATER
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Construction, mining, and farming
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construction, terracing and mining
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construction, mining, and contour plowing
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mining, farming, conservation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Soil erosion is caused due to human activities like deforestation, overgrazing, construction and mining.
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: -There are many causes of soil erosion, most of them being the same as other forms of erosion: namely water, ice, wind, and gravity. The effects of soil erosion can include the loss of fertile land to floods or water pollution, among others.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mass Movement. Soil loss and movement due to the effects of gravity, including; landslips, slumps and slides. Water Erosion. Wind Erosion. 25-Feb-2014