denudation
- noun
- /dɪˌnjuːˈdeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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desnudación
- Scientists study the denudation process to understand how natural forces shape the Earth's surface.
Examples
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He calculated a time interval for the "denudation of the Weald" in the range of 300 million years, apparently long enough for natural selection to have produced the astounding range of species on Earth.
Academic text (2001) -
Consequently, rapid denudation of farmland will continue until pasture abandonment, reversion to scrub, and eventual bush regeneration effect natural slope stabilization.
Academic text (1991) -
Denudation of watersheds (particularly on Java) has reduced the quantity and quality of water flows.
Academic text (1999) -
Kelvin continued by attacking Darwin's estimate directly, asking rhetorically: "What then are we to think of such geological estimates as Darwin's 300,000,000 years for the denudation of the Weald?"
Academic text (2001) -
Announce an emperor in new clothes, and though he may be wearing nothing at all, everyone but the dullest child is capable of imagining their splendor; allege a bathing suit to turn transparent in the water, then for good measure actually wet it, and it will excite a vivid dream of denudation without ever having to disappear.
Academic text (1997) -
The denudation of the mountain due to heavy rains has changed the landscape significantly.
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Rapid denudation in coastal areas can lead to increased erosion and habitat loss.
Synonyms
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3.7
The gradual wearing away of land, rock, and other materials by forces such as water or wind
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4.1
Removing a cover or outer layer from something
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6.3
Removing a cover to show something hidden
Wind removes soil and sand from land, causing erosion
A slow wearing away of a surface when something rubs it
Finding and showing something that was hidden
Antonyms
How Eroded
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word denudation comes from Latin parts de- 'remove' and nudare from nudus 'naked', the same root as the word nude. So, denudation is literally 'making naked', taking away a cover, for example when wind and water wear soil away and expose the rock beneath.