soil erosion, deterioration, degradation, beach erosion, encroachment, slippage, sedimentation, shrinkage, silting, denudation, seepage, diminution, decline, subsidence, weakening, degeneration, revetments, decay, sinkage, salination, overgrowth, overdevelopment, flooding, inundation, dilution, outflow, leakage, diminishment, riprap, depletion, dieback, frost heaving, shoaling, desertification, mesic, drainage, landslip, acidification, corroding, sinkholes, percolation, fragmentation, downslide, softening, eutrophication, evaporation, functional obsolescence, ingress, shallowing, overexploitation, overwash, corrosion, shrinking, overtopping, wetlands, compaction, thinning, disintegration, seaward, infiltration, decimation, receding, entrenchment, stagnation, stabilization, efflorescence, streambed, sunscald, biofouling, washouts, winterkill, spalling, fissuring, shortfalls, swales, sloughing, sediment, inflow, hardening, atrophy, channelization, roadbeds, restoration, overcapitalization, desiccation, dike, intrusion, increases, submergence, devaluation, unsightliness, depressions, overinflation, destruction, dislocations, patchiness, preservation, strengthening, accumulation, exodus, widening, berming, abrasion, attrition, scour, weathering, deforestation, leaching, fracturing, defoliation, shearing, buildup, cathodic, anodic, contact, corticosteroid, damage, disaster, drought, enhanced, evaporative, galvanostatic, heparin, hormone, insulin, interproximal, moisture, noise, progress, skid, steroid

ablation, chatter mark, corrasion, detrition, indentation, pitting, planation, roughness, rust, rusting

., ablate, ablated, abrasion, acadia national park, african love grass, aged, agropyron cristatum, arches national park, attrition, baccharis, badlands national park, bay grass, beach erosion, bicolor lespediza, bluff, channel, clear-cut, coastal, corrasion, corroding, corrosion, cover crop, crested wheatgrass, crested wheat grass, cut, deflation, degrade, detrition, egyptian lupine, eragrostis curvula, escarpment, ezo-yama-hagi, fairway crested wheat grass, field lupine, fret, gash, genus baccharis, groove, hydraulic, lespedeza bicolor, list, love grass, lupinus albus, mulch, peneplain, peneplane, planation, rill, scarp, shelterbelt, soil conservation, strip cropping, torrential, wash, washout, weeping love grass, white lupine, windbreak, wolf bean, worn spot

chemical action, chemical change, chemical process, environmental condition, geological process

eating away, eroding, wearing, wearing away