United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.500181880/1950Pioneer agriculture and sharecropping in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries led to the massive erosion of topsoil across nearly 10 million acres of Georgia's farmland, resulting in loss of productivity in the soil and silting in the state's streams and creeks.Photograph of a ravine caused by topsoil erosion. A person stands near the ravine, which appears to be approximately eight to ten feet deep. A barn stands in the background.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/soil-erosionForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/soil-erosionForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaSoil erosion--GeorgiaErosion--GeorgiaBarns--GeorgiaFarmsPersons--GeorgiaRavines--GeorgiaSoil ErosionStillImage