For example ... erosive forces of water, wind, and ice, rock debris would simply pile up where it forms and obscure from view nature's weathered sculptures. Although erosion is a natural process ...

Rivers and glaciers are the textbook examples of forces that wear down ... The team's paper, "Wind erosion in the Qaidam basin, central Asia: implications for tectonics, paleoclimate, and the ...

The beauty of a canyon is principally the artful work of that masterful sculptor, the river. Rivers wouldn’t exist, obviously, without gravity, which also brings material down from the canyon walls.

Wind can be just as powerful as rivers and glaciers — the textbook examples of forces that wear ... there's severe wind erosion in the Qaidam basin and the dust gets blown out and deposited ...

"We've seen sites where significant erosion occurs in a little ... which it offers for application in the wind power and aerospace industries. One example: it's used on helicopter blades.