The phrase "amounts of soil" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing quantities or measurements of soil in various contexts, such as gardening, construction, or environmental studies.
Example: "The farmer tested different amounts of soil to determine which would yield the best crop results."
Alternatives: "quantities of soil" or "volumes of soil".
Only a few small areas were subjected to more than trivial amounts of soil disturbance.
Removing them without removing large amounts of soil, leaves, and living plants is nearly impossible.
Their food consists of decaying plants and other organisms; as they eat, however, earthworms also ingest large amounts of soil, sand, and tiny pebbles.
"Burning blanket bog to support the elite sport of grouse shooting wreaks ecological havoc – exacerbating wildfires and floods, and releasing huge amounts of soil carbon," said Shrubsole.
Arctic soils store great amounts of soil organic matter (SOM) that are likely to be affected by future climate changes.
His large-scale sculptures, called Earthworks, engaged directly with nature and were created by moving and constructing with vast amounts of soil and rocks.
She knew that preserving the grade change and not having to move large amounts of soil would save money, while also allowing for separate spaces that could function like rooms, to be used for different activities.
But after a while, your eye locks in and you start to see how it should be – it's that balance between making everything look natural and not showing vast amounts of soil.
To extract the gold profitably requires excavating huge amounts of soil and rock from an open-pit mine that could, according to preliminary design plans, eventually cover a seven-square-mile area, making it one of the world's largest.
Over half of the phosphorus in the lake in the summer "may now be attributable to urine released by swimmers", while a footpath to Thoreau's cabin "caused large amounts of soil to wash into the lake".
Concentrated flow erosion processes are distinguished from splash and sheetflow processes in their enhanced ability to mobilize and transport large amounts of soil, water and dissolved elements.
