He said rainwater had run into gullies, causing rocks and debris to end up on the carriageway.
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Bracknell Forest Council, Wokingham Borough Council and Reading Borough Council currently compost leaves collected from streets and gullies.
The steep track on the other side of the bridge looks even worse, cut by even deeper gullies.
They found gullies that, had they been seen in aerial photographs of the earth, would unhesitatingly have been identified as water-carved.
The cottonseed, like the bolls and leaves, once had an unprofitable fate as trash, dumped into gullies and streams, or burned in gigantic piles.
The pillars form rocky buttresses isolated from each other by deep and steep gullies developed by frost shattering directed along intervening joints.
There gullies on the four rivers that vein the reservation's 930, 000 unfenced hectares attract antelope, mule and whitetail deer, turkey, coyote and grouse.
There were bodies of many ponies in family groups, huddled in gullies or behind walls where they had tried to shelter from the terrible conditions.
But according to the researchers, the most convincing argument is that gullies always start about 100 m below the top of a cliff or crater.
Underwater search teams have been looking in a beck and gullies for evidence of a discarded weapon and bin collections have been suspended in the village.
By Martian standards, these gullies appear to be young, since some of them have eroded features such as meteoritic craters that are known to have formed relatively recently.
Mumbaikars of all stripes eat very well, from the panipuri (fried savoury snacks) sold in khau gullies (lanes filled with food stalls) to the world-class cuisine at five-star restaurants.
Meanwhile, some people living in Kilham claim the flooding last month was made worse because the council did not clear the gullies to allow the flood water to drain away.
That hypothesis opens up another explanation for the gullies.
Now he saw the town as you saw a place after fire, all softness gone: the out-crops of rock, the dark gullies, the fireproof rubbish of brown beer bottles and car skeletons.
That means seizing the opportunity provided by tragedy to clear out the ranchos, the slums built on steep hillsides or in gullies that deforestation and erosion have turned into mudslide-prone death traps.
Dr Malin and Dr Edgett suggest that the gullies are being created by water that is either seeping slowly to the surface or building up behind barriers of ice and occasionally bursting through.
An inquiry by West Sussex County Council, Arun and Chichester district councils, the Environment Agency and Southern Water is looking into drainage systems, including whether ditches and gullies were blocked and how to improve maintenance.
They said water seemed to have flowed down two gullies in the past few years, even though liquid water cannot remain long on the planet's frigid, nearly airless surface because it would rapidly freeze or evaporate.
During the last Ice Age, glaciers moving south carved deep gullies in reddish granite, creating a series of parallel steep-sided mountains interspersed with finger lakes as well as one fjord well, a fjard, actually.
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