Paradoxes in the development of gullies

Gullies in the temperate zone are the products of linear erosion, piping and mass movements active mostly during heavy rains. On dominant role of one of those three co-operating processes decide the parameters of rainfalls and permability of substratum. The diversity of gullying depends also on the inherited relief and stage of development of gully forms. In the cultivated areas the formation of gullies is initiated also by cart-roads.