A recent trend in the erosion-accumulation processes is analysed using various approaches, such as quantitative analysis of spatial-temporal variations in the main factors of erosion; natural stationary observations of the soil erosion on slopes, some indirect methods of estimation of erosion and sedimentation rates. The best results might be obtained using all the methods simultaneously. Most promising seems to be estimation of the processes rate based on radioisotopes. A few examples are given of the erosion and sedimentation trends throughout the last 100 to 150 years in different natural zones of the Russian Plain.
A recent trend in the erosion-accumulation processes is analysed using various approaches, such as quantitative analysis of spatial-temporal variations in the main factors of erosion; natural stationary observations of the soil erosion on slopes, some indirect methods of estimation of erosion and sedimentation rates. The best results might be obtained using all the methods simultaneously. Most promising seems to be estimation of the processes rate based on radioisotopes. A few examples are given of the erosion and sedimentation trends throughout the last 100 to 150 years in different natural zones of the Russian Plain.
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