denudation
noun
the act of denuding.
denudative
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a word derived from
denudation.
Example Sentences
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Even while constructive effects were still in progress, denudative forces were not idle.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
The summation of the amounts of dissolved and detrital materials which denudation has brought into the ocean during the long denudative history of the Earth, as we might anticipate, reveals quantities of almost unrealisable greatness.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
The basis of our reasoning is that the ocean owes its saltness mainly if not entirely to the denudative activities we have been considering.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
We now go straight to the ocean for the amount of sodium of denudative origin.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
When the consolidated sediments are by these and by succeeding movements forced upwards into mountains, they are exposed to denudative effects greatly exceeding those which affect the plains.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
