The Colorado Plateau which includes the Grand Canyon is also the result of broad tectonic uplift followed by river erosion.
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The site is notable for its geology, where river erosion provides the best exposes the Amman Marine Band, a strata.
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It has been damaged by river erosion and by ploughing, but excavations in 1973 revealed a ditch wide and deep.
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It was replaced by a better-built fort of the same name in 1735, a bit further back from river erosion.
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The river bed does include the river channels which have shifted the sand bars and low sandy levees leading to river erosion.
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The old pagoda fell in 2002 following river erosion of the bank but it was rebuilt on May 22, 2005 under government guidance.
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That indicates that it wasn't the glaciers themselves that caused the increased river erosion, but related climate change that brought more storms and floods.
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With the Government going on an austerity drive, I am beginning to doubt whether the long-standing flood and river erosion problem here will come to an end.
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Landslides and river erosion have been the primary erosive forces since the end of the last glacial period, which ended in this area around 12, 000 years BP.
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The site was first identified in 1972 by an amateur member of the Vermont Archaeological Society, and was from an early date considered at risk due to river erosion.
