denudation

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The thickness of the deposits gives a measure for the colossal scale of the denudations by which this immense accumulation was reduced to its present level.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various

On his accession she confiscated a full half of his episcopal property, and was constantly insisting on further denudations, including Ely House, Holborn.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

The denudations that left our stark Cornish coasts as we know them now for the most part occurred in times that are dim and legendary.

From The Cornwall Coast by Salmon, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie)

Then the levels of all the upper lakes were higher than they are to-day, those levels having been considerably lowered through the white man's denudations of the forests in the Basin of the Great Lakes.

From Niagara An Aboriginal Center of Trade by Peter A.

But mercy! what strippings, what tearing off of histrionic robes, and private vanities! what denudations to the bone, before the surly Ferryman will admit you to set a foot within his battered lighter!

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles