Sentence examples for active layer from inspiring English sources

When you walk around in the Arctic, you are stepping not on permafrost but on something called the "active layer".

Life in the active layer proceeds much as it does in more temperate regions, with one critical difference.

Thawing permafrost could make the active layer more hospitable to plants, which are a sink for carbon.

The surface, or active, layer of permafrost thaws in the warm season and freezes in the winter, but the soil below the active layer remains continuously frozen.

The permafrost limits drainage and retains moisture for plant growth within the active layer.

The permafrost table is lowered, the active layer is thickened, and considerable ice is melted.

The active layer in the permafrost is normally deep in them.

The term permafrost is somewhat a misnomer: while deeper soil remains frozen year-round, the "active layer" of soil extending several feet below the surface thaws each summer.

Then he would take out a metal probe shaped like a "T" and poke it into the ground at regular intervals, measuring the depth of the active layer.

Data from a Norilsk monitoring station showed the active layer has been thawing earlier and its thickness has increased from three feet to five feet.

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