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gully erosion

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gully erosion [′gəl·ē i¦rō·zhən]
(geology)
Erosion of soil by running water.


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`Soils developed on these formations are particularly sensitive to gully erosion and, because they are relatively infertile, the ground cover is poor in some places, compounding erosion.
The Southwest Center for Biological Diversity reported that the Kern River system in the southern Sierra Nevada had been heavily overgrazed for more than 150 years, damaging 80 percent of the Kern Plateau with gully erosion and has reduced habitat for the California golden trout.
``There are several large sections that have washed out and then there's sections of the trail that have very deep gully erosion, so it's difficult to walk, nearly impossible to take a bike or a horse there.
 
 
 
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