Definition of Erodable

1. erosible [adj] - See also: erosible

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erodable

ermines
ermining
ermit
ermits
ern
erne
erned
ernes
ernestful
ernienickelite
erniggliite
erning
erns
ernstite
erodable (current term)
erode
eroded
erodent
erodents
erodes
erodibilities
erodibility
erodible
eroding
erodium
erodiums
erogation
erogations

Literary usage of Erodable

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

1. The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory, William Phipps Blake (1915)
"This non-erodable covering must, of course, be fairly durable, ... "Above low water the,bank can be seen and the non-erodable covering can be laid with ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"... the longitudinal ones being subsequently elaborated along the strike of the softer or more erodable beds exposed on the flanks of those chains. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"The depressions of the surface of the ground, along the course of a vein or elevated bed of soft or erodable ore, have generally invited the gathering of ..."

4. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"Protection against such erosion may be had by grading the bank to a flat slope, and covering its surface to high-water mark by non-erodable materials, ..."

5. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1891)
"... but the drainage at the edge of such a plateau, formed of erodable material, like that of the lower Mississippi region would speedily revolutionize the ..."

6. A Century of Science in America: With Special Reference to the American by Edward Salisbury Dana, Charles Schuchert (1918)
"... the longitudinal ones being subsequently elaborated along the strike of the softer or more erodable beds exposed on the flanks of those chains. ..."

7. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1883)
"The same mounds demonstrate that the Hudson Kiver shales, an especially erodable formation, originally curved over the water-shed. ..."

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