Definition of Erosible

1. capable of being eroded [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erosible

erogation
erogations
erogenicity
erogenous zones
eromenoi
erose
erose leaf
erosely
eroses
erosible (current term)
erosion
erosional
erosionally
erosions
erosive
erosive adenomatosis of nipple
erosive gastritis
erosiveness
erosivenesses
erosivities
erosivity
erostrate
erotema
erotemas

Literary usage of Erosible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1896)
"... a cavern in which the arching sandstone roof was finally broken through up to the base of the Trenton, and into which easily erosible material from the ..."

2. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1903)
"... through an erosible bed which the river has moulded to its needs, these irregularities of slope, velocity and section will disappear, and that there ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"A river channel through an erosible formation always fits the river as a turtle's shell fits its back. There is no reason why the channel of the Lower ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"... making hollows and long valleys where the more erosible beds have been removed, and leaving ridges and mountain ranges of the harder rocks. ..."

5. The Ice Age in North America, and Its Bearings Upon the Antiquity of Man by George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham (1896)
"... which consists largely of easily erosible strata, and had in preglacial time become extensively disintegrated by weathering under a dry climate. ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1873)
"The Salina, which by its erosible character has played an important part in determining the location of some of the great lakes of Central North America, ..."

7. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist, Wisconsin Geological Survey (1877)
"Other things being equal, surface waters would naturally form a channel iirst in the more soft and easily erosible strata lying along the line of strike of ..."

8. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1873)
"... been likely to work out for themselves some escape through the more erosible materials, and to have become clothed sooner with the indigenous forest. ..."

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