higher rates of soil loss, says Jess Rodrigo Comino, a geographer at the Institute of Geomorphology and Soils in Mlaga, Spain, who was not involved in the study. And soil erosion isn't necessarily a bad thing; it can help generate new soils to keep an ecosystem healthy. As used in this paragraph an anomaly is

	1.	Normal
	2.	Expected
	3.	Something that deviates from the standard
	4.	Alarm