The EC is in the Botanical Gardens. You can get to it from my other cache Hillsnacks(you don’t have to find it to log this EC, but im just letting you know if you want to take in one If the best views I've seen in a while,for that reason I'm not putting the GC code in), or you could hike to it though the botanical gardens, depends how much of an energizer bunny you feel like been as that way around is long hard and steep, with now trails intill you get to the 4X4 tracks. you can get the cache at night (though, do it at your own risk) All the information you need below
Soil erosion is the displacement of the upper layer of soil, one form of soil degradation. This natural process is caused by the dynamic activity of erosive agents, that is, water. Soil erosion may be a slow process that continues relatively unnoticed, or it may occur at an alarming rate causing a serious loss of topsoil.
Valley or stream erosion occurs with continued water flow along a linear feature. The erosion is both downward, deepening the valley, and headward, extending the valley into the hillside, creating head cuts and steep banks. In the earliest stage of stream erosion, the erosive activity is dominantly vertical, the valleys have a typical V cross-section and the stream gradient is relatively steep. When some base level is reached, the erosive activity switches to lateral erosion, which widens the valley floor and creates a narrow floodplain. The stream gradient becomes nearly flat, and lateral deposition of sediments becomes important as the stream meanders across the valley floor. In all stages of stream erosion, by far the most erosion occurs during times of flood, when more and faster-moving water is available to carry a larger sediment load. In such processes, it is not the water alone that erodes: suspended abrasive particles, pebbles and boulders can also act erosively as they traverse a surface, in a process known as traction.
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Each year, about 75 billion tons of soil is eroded from the land—a rate that is about 13–40 times as fast as the natural rate of erosion. Approximately 40% of the world's agricultural land is seriously degraded. According to the United Nations, an area of fertile soil the size of Ukraine is lost every year because of drought, deforestation and climate change. In Africa, if current trends of soil degradation continue, the continent might be able to feed just 25% of its population by 2025, according to UNU's Ghana-based Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.
Looking at the evidence available,answer these questions to be able to log a find.
1)WHAT THE MAIN CAUSE OF EROSION YOU IN THE AREA?
2)WHAT COULD BE A HELPFUL WAY TO PREVENT FURTHER EROSION?
3)DESCRIBE THE WORST EROSION YOU FIND 4)HOW DO YOU THINK IT WAS FORMED !
5)TAKE A PHOTO OF YOU WITH YOUR GPS AT GROUND ZERO (only if you want to though, not needed to log a find)!