Sentence examples for Infertile clay from inspiring English sources

The rock weathers exceptionally slowly and the infertile clay it produces is not good farming material.

Maesopsis eminii, a prolific seed producer, germinates abundantly in the infertile clay soils and is an aggressive colonizer in disturbed forests.

One of the reasons is that one of the preferred timber species, Tectona grandis (Teak), grows poorly on the infertile and clay soils that dominate much of the country, including the Panama Canal watershed.

The forest grew on the slope of a low hill; large boulders lay between the small thin birches, and the soil was infertile and poor — clay here, gray earth there — but the trees and grass had got used to these conditions, and they lived in this land as best they could.

The central part of Purbeck is a westerly extension of the infertile Hampshire Basin sands and clays.

Soils developed over clays are likely to be heavy and wet, although not necessarily infertile, as in the Jurassic clay and chalk vales of the eastern Paris Basin.

The associated podzol soils (also known as podsols or spodosols) are strongly acidic and relatively infertile due to the illuviation of clay, organic matter and nutrient components (Isbell 2002; Thompson 19811992).

The banks of the Sénégal River are well-watered and fertile in the Fouta region, yet the thin, sandy clay of the region's interior plains is infertile and porous.

Many volcanic soils have not had time to transform into clay, which retains water, and these soils are often relatively infertile.

While this notion has some research support in cases where soils are shallow or infertile, close spacing has also been advocated on deep (>2m rooting), fertile, clay-loam, valley-floor soils.

A high clay content makes it difficult to work, and a concentration of sodium carbonate sometimes produces infertile black-alkali soils.