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Definition of Corrading
1. corrade [v] - See also: corrade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrading
Literary usage of Corrading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"The stream corrading vertically through indurated rocks steadily increases its
vertical banks below, while the weathering steadily decreases them above ..."
2. Rivers of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and Geology by Israel Cook Russell (1898)
"As such a stream entrenches itself by corrading the bottom of its channel, ...
As has been shown with exceptional clearness by Hicks,1 corrading streams ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1898)
"These are illustrated in plate V. The minor streams have not yet reached their
base levels and are dry most of the year, corrading their beds only in times ..."
4. Eclectic Physical Geography by Russell Hinman (1897)
"Since within certain limits the corrading power of a stream increases with the
amount of sediment it carries, muddy streams may wear away the hard stratum ..."
5. Elements of Physical Geography by Thomas Cramer Hopkins (1908)
"hence its corrading effect on the rock surface over which it moved must have been
... The corrading action of the glacier is indicated by the scratching, ..."
6. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1895)
"... and the upland limestone region seems to be dissolving, rather than corrading,
into a sink-hole topography of vast proportions. The Coastal Topography. ..."
7. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1907)
"In that case the stream becomes a transporting and not a corrading agent; weathering
becomes the important factor in valley-deepening as in valley- widening ..."
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