Sentence examples for blocks of soil from inspiring English sources

The microbes transform the carbon into the building blocks of soil organic matter and help stabilize it, sequestering the carbon.

The weapons and helmet decorations, coins and Christian crosses amount to more than 1500 pieces, with hundreds still embedded in blocks of soil.

Blocks of soil no larger than a cigarette packet are impregnated with resin so they can be sliced into thin sections, which can then be analysed under a microscope.

In this study we reciprocally transferred intact plant communities in 1 m by 1 m blocks of soil at 3,200, 3,400, 3,600 and 3,800 m above sea level in the Qilian Mountains of China.

These consist of undisturbed blocks of soil 20, 40 and 60 inches deep (51, 102 and 152 cm, respectively), which are never cropped and are kept free of weeds, originally by hand weeding and subsequently using herbicides35.

The bones were lifted in small blocks of soil, wrapped in newspaper, and delivered to Meyer.

Reg Mead and Richard Miles found up to 50,000 silver and bronze coins, which remain clumped inside a massive block of soil.

The test problem consists of a rectangular block of soil where specified pressure is applied at the top and bottom of the sample, and no-flow boundary conditions are imposed on the sides.

When he went on to find a broken but beautiful silver gilt trumpet-shaped brooch, they told him it was the find of a lifetime and he'd never find another: he then found the second brooch, larger and in better condition a few minutes later, and a third, which is still locked within a block of soil but may be the best of the lot.

For the present study, the soil water balance model was also simplified in that the catchment was represented by a rectangular block of soil rather than a linear hillslope as in Schymanski (2007) and Schymanski et al. (2009 b ).

A new monitoring scheme is urgently needed and should cover large blocks of land representative of the soil landscapes of England and Wales.