Sentence examples for constituted the soil from inspiring English sources
The labours of Topelius in the children's field and of Elias Lönnrot (compiler of the great Finnish epic-miscellany the Kalevala, 1835) in the field of national folklore constituted the soil from which Finnish children's literature was eventually to derive nutriment.
These layers are called horizons, and the full vertical sequence of horizons constitutes the soil profile (see the figure).
The nonlinear gap element ensures that no pressure is applied to the abutment wall during a reversal, whereas the nonlinear elasto-plastic spring constitutes the soil properties (with optional post yield stiffness).
The apparent analogy of a seed being planted in furrowed soil to a male's "planting" of semen in the vulva of a female led to the conclusion that men provide the seed of new life and women constitute the soil in which that seed grows.
Loamy to clayey as well as sandy sediments constitute the soil development.
Mr Service makes a strong case that "poverty and oppression constituted the best soil for Marxism to grow in".
Megafauna constitute the largest soil organisms and include the largest earthworms, perhaps the most important creatures that live in the topsoil.
Seven chemical indicators were selected as they constitute the standard soil fertility test.
The author, Robert Kaplan, forecast that "just as German soil constituted the military front line of the cold war, the waters of the South China Sea may constitute the military front line of the coming decades".He may well be right.
They are common in the tundra landscapes of northern Canada and in the high elevations of the Cordilleras, and they constitute the fertile soils of the Pacific Northwest and of the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska.
The actual evapotranspiration constitutes 31.90 % of the total precipitation, while the direct surface runoff constitutes 61.04 %, the soil water constitutes 3%% and the groundwater recharge constitutes only 4%% of the total precipitation.
