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Excerpt from Mechanics of Water Erosion Water causes erosion by detaching soil parti cles from the surface soil mass and transport ing it, mostly downhill. It may do this on any area where-there is natural precipitation or where water is applied artificially to land sur faces. Water's erosive action is. Greatest and most destructive where the protective cover of vegetation has been removed, exposing bare land surfaces to the direct action of rainstorms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.