The rivers were filled with bars, the land gullied, and the fertile top‑soil, or as much as the fire had left, was washed away into the larger waters. The damage was immense, the loss irretrievable.

Below us dark, gullied ridges held another half million years of sediments. Beyond them was the basalt, laid down when this vast plain was swamped in lava, 5.2 million years ago. To the left was ...

Hard to believe these very fields had once been gullied with erosion, sending their precious topsoil down the muddy Mississippi. We worked it hard. I didn't count but I would guess we made 15 to ...

The Spanish moss gave way to bare trees (for it was late winter); signs nailed to trees advertised their province as Christ or a restaurant 500 yards up the road; pitted, gullied red-clay banks thrust ...

Down the gullied road is a raw-concrete school or a new co-op store of fresh pine. In the towns, even the slick young men in shiny black shoes and sports shirts stop flirting with their plump ...

A beautiful landscape with ash oak birch and sycamore and varied wild flowers, Tom Wood lies on a steep gullied valley running down into the River Etherow near the village of Charlesworth.