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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 (2,100 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • erosion is a type of natural phenomenon[2].
  • erosion is a type of natural process[3].
  • erosion is a type of removal[4].
  • erosion's Commons category is recorded as Erosion[5].
  • erosion's has cause is recorded as weathering[6].
  • erosion's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Erosion[7].
  • erosion's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • erosion's described by source is recorded as Small Soviet Encyclopedia[9].
  • erosion's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • erosion's different from is recorded as Erozja[11].
  • erosion's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001346[12].
  • erosion's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].
  • erosion's class of object is recorded as terrain[14].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include natural phenomenon[2], natural process[3], and removal[4].

Why It Matters

erosion ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,100 views/month).[1] erosion has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] erosion is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → erosion
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  2. 5w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1iOlmc
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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