Revista Sociedade & Natureza (May 2005)

EROSIVE PROCESSES IN THE RURAL AREA OF THE MUNICIPAL DISTRICT OF BALSAS - MA

  • Lenir Cardoso Brito,
  • Lílian Daniele Pantoja Gonçalves,
  • Francicléia Vieira Ribeiro,
  • Antonio Cordeiro Feitosa

Journal volume & issue
Vol. Especial, no. 1
pp. 430 – 439

Abstract

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The Geography represents the beginning of all the other sciences that you/they treat of the organization of the terrestrial space, is the science that studies the Earth in his/her diversity in ways, physical interactions and human interventions.The man, through their activities, is capable to modify the landscape in way positive or negative, the Geography studies the modifications of social and physical order of the landscape and the Geomorphology, as subdivision of this science, he has as object the organization of the atmosphere in a dynamic perspective.Conceitly, the Geomorphology studies the processes and the relief forms. They are Objects of the geomorphology the processes that take charge of sculpting those reliefs, he wants are for the destructive forces, he wants for the constructive processes. Through the knowledge obtained with the development of the sciencegeomorphology, the existent relationship was observed between the vegetation and the superficial drainage. It is possible to express the idea clearly that the vegetation offers partial protection for the soil avoiding erosions, what is of extreme importance for the environmental studies.