What is the difference between erosion and scarp?
erosion | scarp |
(uncountable) The result of having been being worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
* 2012 , (George Monbiot), (Guardian Weekly) , August 24, p.20
(uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
(uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
(mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in (morphological image processing) from which all other morphological operations are derived.
(dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
(medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
the steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet
(geology) a cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion; the steeper side of an escarpment
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
(earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment
As nouns the difference between erosion and scarp
is that erosion is the result of having been being worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face while scarp is the steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.As a verb scarp is
to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment.erosion
English
(wikipedia erosion)Noun
(en noun)- Even second-generation in the ground.
Derived terms
* erosive * erosional * sheet erosion * splash erosionscarp
English
Noun
(wikipedia scarp) (en noun)- Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).
Verb
(en verb)- to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock
- From scarped cliff and quarried stone. — Tennyson.
- Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. — Emerson.