So everything I find just mentions erosion taking place over a long period of time, but just what is happening? Does a microscopic layer get drug away all the time, or is it nothing until all of a sudden some gets carried away?
Asking because I didn’t know if erosion was taking place at an immeasurable pace with my drinking glass.
Edit: I should add that I understand from a high level how erosion, or weathering, occurs. But I don’t know how it’s happening at a micro level. Is it always the top layer of atoms being stripped? I’m assuming bond strength plays a factor, but does the weathering material break the bond down over time, or just if bond strength is < some measure then it strips away?
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It’s usually a slow thing like a river slowly dragging the lightest sand pieces down stream… wind can also do it, but it’s basically nature moving sand/dirt piles.. the rivers are fairly slow, until there’s a big rainstorm or flood, that’s moving more water, thus more dirt/materials, it’s gonna end up somewhere else…
You could probably YouTube videos that go into varying levels of depth, but yea, if there’s a constant flow of something, then tiny layers are constantly being dug away, that can happen until there’s a landslide, which is erosion at a much faster pace (or avalanches, or big volcano eruptions, or hurricanes)
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