How To Use Corrasion In A Sentence

• Admitting that the sharper declivity of the Kanab would enhance its power of corrasion, nevertheless we should expect to see it approach the Grand Canyon by leaps and bounds, like the The Romance of the Colorado River
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• It seems possible that there may have been in this region some great lake which lifted the waters up to the top of the ridge to begin their work of corrasion. The Romance of the Colorado River
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• Nowhere else on the face of the globe is one so vividly impressed by the vastness of the work of corrasion as in the northwestern part of Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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• A suspicion arises, on contemplating some of these apparent discrepancies, that the prevailing conditions of corrasion are not what they were at some earlier period, when they were such that it was rendered more rapid and violent; that there was perhaps an epoch when these deep-cut tributary canyons carried perennial streams, and when the volume of the Colorado itself was many times greater, possessing a multiplied corrasive power, while the adjacent areas were about as arid as now. The Romance of the Colorado River
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• Abrasion: (this is also known as corrasion) - this is where rock fragments are hurled at cliffs by breaking waves, gradually scraping away at the cliff face; the load acts as a grinding tool. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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