Sentence examples for deep leaching from inspiring English sources

Relatively infertile because of deep leaching of otherwise nutrient-poor sands, spodosols are best left to forest or to crops that prefer acid conditions, such as potatoes and hay.

Deep leaching and great age have resulted in the loss of many of the essential nutrients from these soils; heavy fertilization is required for such typical crops as tobacco, cotton, soybeans, and corn (maize).

Deep brines leaching salt diapirs cannot reach the surface.

High organic content in soil may result in decreasing sorption of pharmaceuticals to soil particles and making them available for plant uptake or leaching deep in soil layers (Miller et al. 2016).

In temperate and humid climates where irrigation is supplemental to rainfall, PI is less developed but nevertheless offers scope to make more effective use of rainfall, help reduce the non-beneficial losses associated with irrigation (deep drainage, nitrate leaching) and provide farmers with evidence to demonstrate environmentally sustainable practices to processors and retailers.

Over the life of the mine, more than 4.3m tonnes of sulphuric acid and other toxic chemicals were pumped deep underground to leach out the uranium.

The other percentage of them were assumed to be degraded in the soil or leached deep.

It is because the penetration of the sample molecules is a slow process, and they find sufficient time to leach deep into the ground to a depth of 12 in.

These chemicals are sprayed on the surface of the yard, but when it rains they leach deep into the ground and get into the groundwater below.

Deep percolation and nitrate leaching are important considerations in the design of sprinkler systems.

A method for quantifying deep seepage and solute leaching under field conditions was developed, tested and applied at more than 40 soil hydrological field plots in NE Germany.