Effects of Soil Erosion

Landslides

Soil erosion can have disastrous effects on the environment, and the most common of which is landslide, or the sliding of a mass of soil or rocks down an inclined area. As land from an elevated area slides down, it brings with it rocks and even boulders; thus, destroying crops and property and killing people and animals in its way. The primary agent for landslide to happen is water.

When heavy rain occurs in an elevated area, the ground gets soaked with too much water. Excess water rushes down the surface of the land, called a runoff. Too much runoff causes a landslide and brings in a devastating flow of water, mud, soil, rocks, and basically almost everything in the runoff's path.