What is "eroded"

Usage examples of "eroded".

Tuff is much softer than basalt and andesite, and over the years this exposed layer has eroded away, leaving us with our wonderful hotel.

All around them were the many-colored rocks of the continental roots and glistening, fantastically eroded shapes of salt and anhydrite and gypsum.

Hand had painted them there and soft cliffs eroded with a hundred tiny cavelets along their faces.

The etchant eroded crystalline sealant, staining the corroded surface in green, orange, violet.

Even at a fast walk it would be more than two hours before they reached the eroded artificial hill where the Big House at Hyve had stood.

Lombo scooped Nacker up in an arm and led the procession that wound up the hill, through alleys and unpaved streets with eroded gullies on either side.

More stone monuments dotted the landscapes, ages old, their circular signs eroded by weather or ripicolous lichens.

One of my favorite rides was to go down through the sammit fields to the much eroded badlands at the northwestern edge of the Demesne where the flood-chucks were at work.

By the landmarks she gives him - a vegetable stand, a pond rimmed with willows, a double silo close to the road - he feels his way through the tummocks and swales of red earth crowded with shimmering green growth, merciless vegetation that allows not even the crusty eroded road embankments to rest barren but makes them bear tufts and mats of vetch and honeysuckle vines and fills the stagnant hot air with the haze of exhaled vapor.

One after another they found them, the rock face eroded in a pattern like an ear of ripe wheat, the hundred-foot-tall fir, dead some twenty years at least, that still stood stark and black on a hill top, an enormous boulder split by ancient ice with a young tree growing twixt the two halves.

The other was a male with eroded three-cusp molars, callused foot pads and chipped claws, and ulcerated patches where his elbows and knees and shoulder bones had abraded against rock.

May, when she brought the Churro sheep back to Joe-Johns Mountain, the pieces of the wrecked wing had already eroded, were small and smooth-edged like the bits of sea glass you find on a beach, and she figured that this must be what it was meant to do: to break apart into pieces too small for anybody to notice, and then to quickly wear away.

As he felt himself wrenching out of shape, exhilaration eroded his panic and sang through him.

The bubble of reality he generated was being eroded by the strongly anthropic process.

It was the methane that eroded and shaped the ice, carving gullies and caves.