Examples of scour

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However, some observers considered the disturbances to be largely tectonic, with individual structures sometimes being initiated on depositional heterogeneities such as erosional scours.
Unfortunately, the large fuselage number on one side had been scoured away by wind.
He scoured the country for pupils who were already literate and knew the rudiments of arithmetic.
Upon arrival, several calves were scouring and one died within days.
As one would expect, he has scoured the newspapers of the era for significant reviews and interviews.
The beds may also show flame structures and internal truncation scours.
In places, it is possible that sedimentary forms such as channel-base scours controlled the initiation and extent of individual thrusts.
As water oscillations continue, the backwash vortex scours material from the erodible bed, causing a step to grow up gradually.
Live individuals were also occasionally scoured and entrained.
We hope that excluded researchers understand the difficulty in scouring 30 years of literature.
An initial hollow, whether scoured by the wind or not, would tend to be damper than the surrounding desert and thus chemical weathering would be greater there.
Once a rip current pattern has developed it scours the sea bottom to give areas of deeper water which perpetuate the cell circulation pattern: a classical example of positive feedback.
After a meteorite fall, people scour the country, expecting to see something strange.
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