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Soil Erosion and Its Effects
Soil Erosion and Its Effects
CONTENTS
SOIL AND ITS COMPONENTS
SOIL EROSION AND ITS CAUSES TYPES OF EROSION IMPACTS
weathering of rocks and it covers the surface of the Earth. Soil is a complex mixture of organic and inorganic components and living organisms and is the main resource for food production.
SOIL EROSION
Soil erosion refers to all physical processes that
detach the particles, transport and deposit on land surface. Much of the erosion is due to instability of land mass due to gravity and the balance is directly lost due to excessive moisture or water in the earth mass.
WIND EROSION
3. Rill erosion
RAIN DROP EROSION: The impact of the raindrop breaks apart the soil , once the rate of falling rain is faster than infiltration, runoff takes place. SHEET EROSION -The thin film of water over the entire field moving down-slope. RILL EROSION-The Collection of sheet erosion water into channels called Rills.
the loss of valuable top soil Off-site effect : the siltation of rivers and streams. The sediment carries agricultural chemicals which pollutes streams and lakes-death of aquatic organisms Reduction in Storage capacity of rivers, streams.
Contamination of drinking water by the Pesticide residues. Loss and degradation of habitat from clearing grasslands and forests and draining wetland.