section_path: Physical processes/Chemical erosion
section_name: Chemical erosion
paragraph_text: Chemical erosion
  
  Chemical erosion is the loss of matter in a landscape in the form of solutes. Chemical erosion is usually calculated from the solutes found in streams. Anders Rapp pioneered the study of chemical erosion in his work about Kärkevagge published in 1960.
  
  Formation of sinkholes and other features of karst topography is an example of extreme chemical erosion.