erosion

action of exogenic processes which remove soil and rock from one location on the Earth's crust, then transport it to another location where it is deposited
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erosion

Summary

erosion ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (908 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • erosion's video is recorded as Sea dune Erosion at Talace, Wales.webm[2].
  • erosion's image is recorded as Eroding rill in field in eastern Germany.jpg[3].
  • erosion's GND ID is recorded as 4015366-6[4].
  • erosion's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85044667[5].
  • erosion's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11944123k[6].
  • erosion's subclass of is recorded as natural phenomenon[7].
  • erosion's subclass of is recorded as natural process[8].
  • erosion's subclass of is recorded as removal[9].
  • erosion's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00571149[10].
  • erosion's Commons category is recorded as Erosion[11].
  • erosion's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 18059[12].
  • erosion's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02n1k[13].
  • erosion's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph170599[14].
  • erosion's has cause is recorded as weathering[15].
  • erosion's HDS ID is recorded as 007784[16].
  • erosion's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Erosion[17].
  • erosion's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300054116[18].
  • erosion's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 551.302[19].
  • erosion's PSH ID is recorded as 4020[20].
  • erosion's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10637801[21].
  • erosion's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1339[22].
  • erosion's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • erosion's described by source is recorded as Small Soviet Encyclopedia[24].
  • erosion's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[25].
  • erosion's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/erosion-geology[26].

Why It Matters

erosion ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (908 views/month).[1] erosion has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] erosion is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  11. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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