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Bedrock erosion surface beneath the rocky flats alluvial fan, Jefferson and Boulder counties, Colorado

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Temporally and spatially uniform rates of erosion in the southern Appalachian Great Smoky Mountains

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Erosion of an ancient mountain range, the Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina and Tennessee

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Variations in the styles of erosion along the Florida Escarpment, eastern Gulf of Mexico

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Shore erosion as a sediment source to the tidal Potomac River, Maryland and Virginia

Presentations and Events

The Last Land: How humans changed erosion in Hawaii
Photography
Image: Trail Camera Installation to Monitor Erosion along Missouri River

Trail Camera Installation to Monitor Erosion along Missouri River
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Image: Trail Camera Installation to Monitor Erosion along Missouri River

Trail Camera Installation to Monitor Erosion along Missouri River
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Monitoring channel erosion and aggradation, Mount St. Helens (North...

Monitoring channel erosion and aggradation, Mount St. Helens (North...
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Hurricane Isaias coastal change forecast map 8.1.2020

Hurricane Isaias Unlikely to Cause Widespread Atlantic Beach Erosion
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A coral worn smooth with a badly eroded base

Erosion has taken a toll on this Keys coral
Research
Photo of a hillside after a fire

Characterizing high-resolution soil burn severity, erosion risk, and recovery using Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS)

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Borehole Erosion Test data, Lower American and Sacramento Rivers, California, 2019 (ver. 3.0, July 2020)

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Assessment and characterization of ephemeral stream channel stability and mechanisms affecting erosion in Grand Valley, western Colorado, 2018–21

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Oyster shells on the beach amongst dead tree roots and stumps

Native American shell middens along many coastlines are vulnerable to shoreline erosion

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Sediment deposition, erosion, and bathymetric change in San Francisco Bay, California, 1971–1990 and 1999–2020

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TV News Features USGS Use of Historical Photos to Measure Cliff Erosion in San Francisco

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Erosion, storage, and transport of sediment in two subbasins of the Rio Puerco, New Mexico

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Coastal change along the shore of northeastern South Carolina— The South Carolina Coastal Erosion Study

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Experimental and field observations of breach dynamics accompanying erosion of Marmot Cofferdam, Sandy River, Oregon

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Modeling carbon dynamics in vegetation and soil under the impact of soil erosion and deposition

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Erosion and accretion along the arctic coast of Alaska. The influence of ice and climate

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Erosion and deterioration of the Isles Dernieres Barrier Island Arc, Louisiana, U.S.A.: 1853 to 1988

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Soil conservation and the reduction of erosion and sedimentation in the Coon Creek basin, Wisconsin

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Photograph of bluff erosion in 2010 undermining the Great Highway at the southern end of Ocean Beach, San Francisco.

U.S. West Coast Erosion Spiked In Winter 2009-10, Previewing Likely Future As Climate Changes

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Interactions across spatial scales among forest dieback, fire, and erosion in northern New Mexico landscapes

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High-precision measurements of wetland sediment elevation. I. Recent improvements to the sedimentation--erosion table

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Analysis of bank erosion on the Merced River, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, USA

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Observations at convergent margins concerning sediment subduction, subduction erosion, and the growth of continental crust

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Solute erosion and chloride balance in selected river basins of the western conterminous United States

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