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Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by home_project123 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @02:28PM (#20434970)
Is soil erosion ever naturally reversed ?

It seems to me to be a one way downhill process ?

Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by abraae on Sunday July 14, 2019 @04:18PM (#20435728)
It sure does, see Rangitoto Island for an example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangitoto_Island).

A bare volcanic rock after its eruption 600 years ago, the island is now largely reforested. Lava fields contain no soil of the typical kind, so it must come from windblown matter and slow breaking-down processes of the native flora.

Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by maxerickson on Sunday July 14, 2019 @02:46PM (#20435097)
Sure, soil building happens naturally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_species

Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by dredmorbius on Sunday July 14, 2019 @07:48PM (#20437016)
Natural rates of formation are ~1 in/century (2.5 sanetimeter units).
Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by brohee on Sunday July 14, 2019 @02:48PM (#20435110)
Obviously there was no soil at first since it's dead organic matter.
Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by olliej on Sunday July 14, 2019 @02:52PM (#20435144)
Yes, but that’s not “reversing” so much as completely rebuilding soil, which takes decades of no farming and no tillage.

A lot of loss can also be trivially reduces by planting rows of trees between fields, which I saw all over the place in NZ, but haven’t seen elsewhere.

Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by brohee on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:03AM (#20439149)
Pretty standard in Europe : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocage
Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by Nasrudith on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:04PM (#20436456)
Erosion is why there is soil in the first place. Moss and lichens for one create it from rocks.