Sheet erosion

[5][6] However, the frequency over time with which this occurs may be high, compensating for the small change observed in each individual episode of sheet erosion.

[6] A sheetflood can be distinguished from an ordinary sheet flow by its much greater magnitude and much lesser frequency.

[6] Sheet erosion is common in recently ploughed fields and bare ground where the substrate, typically soil, is not consolidated.

[7] The sheet erosion caused by a single rainstorm may account for the loss of up to hundred tons of small particles in an acre.

[8] As such, sheet erosion may have contributed to shaping important landforms like the Sub-Cambrian peneplain that covers much of the Baltic Shield.