GULLY EROSION

Domain	Definition
Agriculture	Also called ephemeral gully erosion, this process occurs when water flows in narrow channels during or immediately after heavy rains or melting snow. A gully is sufficiently deep that it would not be routinely destroyed by tillage operations whereas rill erosion is smoothed by ordinary farm tillage. The narrow channels, or gullies, may be of considerable depth , ranging from 1 to 2 feet to as much as 75 to 100 feet. Gully erosion is not accounted for in the universal soil loss equation. In a few states gully erosion is substantial, but in most areas more soil is lost through sheet erosion and rill erosion. (references)
Building & Civil Engineering	A concentrated and often rapid water erosion, creating and enlarging gullies. Source: European Union. (references)
Environment	Severe erosion in which trenches are cut to a depth greater than 30 centimeters (a foot). Generally, ditches deep enough to cross with farm equipment are considered gullies. (references)
Geography	The removal of soil by an excessive concentration of running water, resulting in the formation of deep channels. Source: European Union. (references)
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Photo Album: GULLY EROSION

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	Gully erosion from uncontrolled runoff. Kansas. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.		Dam built as part of the road in southern Iowa curbs gully erosion, improves water quality, and saves county funds by reducing maintenance costs of culverts. The dam is called a 'road structure' by NRCS, which helps design such structures. Credit: Lynn Betts.
	Severe gully erosion on loess soils in western Iowa. Credit: Unknown.		Ephemeral gully erosion and severe rill erosion washes young corn plants from the ground as well as topsoil and nutrients from loess soils in this western Iowa field. Credit: Lynn Betts.
	Drop structure built at the outlet of a grassed waterway to stabilize the waterway and allow runoff to leave the waterway without causing gully erosion. Credit: Lynn Betts.		Gully erosion, Parke County, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Cut-over land and first stages of gully erosion. Brown County, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.		Building gully erosion control dam. Franklin County, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Gully erosion by check dam. Macon County, Alabama. Tuskegee Project. Credit: Library of Congress.		Nannie Emrick farm near Aledo, Illinois, showing how tree roots cling to soil in gully erosion. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Anagrams: GULLY EROSION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-l-n-o-o-r-s-u-y"
	-2 letters: gloriously.
	-3 letters: glorioles, neurology, onerously, rousingly, sinologue, urologies.
	-4 letters: gloriole, glorious, guylines, illusory, isologue, ligneous, losingly, loungers, resoling, rollings, rouilles, rugosely, seignory, serology, sinology, sullying, youngers.
	-5 letters: eloigns, elusion, elusory, enology, enrolls, eringos, erosion, eryngos, gillers, girosol, glories, gooneys, goonies, goosier, grilles, groynes, gulleys, gullies, gurneys, guyline, igneous, ignores, isogeny, isogone, isogony, legions, ligules.
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Alternative Orthography: GULLY EROSION

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Domain	Title
Books	Gully Erosion and Management Methods and Application: A Field Manual (reference) (more book examples)
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Specialty Definition: GULLY EROSION