Siltation vs Erosion - What's the difference?
siltation | erosion |
The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 20, author=Somini Sengupta, title=In Silt, Bangladesh Sees Potential Shield Against Sea Level Rise, work=New York Times
, passage=They are also heavily engineered upstream: a dam built upstream in neighboring India can critically stanch the flow of freshwater down here, increasingly the chances of salinity and siltation . }}
(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.
As nouns the difference between siltation and erosion
is that siltation is the (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water while 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.siltation
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*(Siltation)erosion
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(wikipedia erosion)Noun
(en noun)- Even second-generation in the ground.
