Sentence examples for dense clay from inspiring English sources

The rare Monardella venosa grows in patches of dense clay soil in the flats of the canyon.

In this paper, clay mud of smectite-rich Danish Holmehus clay was investigated for evaluation of the physical interaction with the dense clay blocks.

The large-diameter VDH holes have dense clay seals of smectite-rich material in combination with clay mud for stabilization of the rock.

The range is extremely wide; the seepage rate through clean gravel is 10,000 times that through sand, 10,000,000 times that through silt, and 100,000,000 times that through dense clay.

The possibility of solving the problem of rapid hydration of the blocks, which can make the resistance to insertion of the units of dense clay and canisters ("supercontainers") in the mud difficult, was investigated by using pre-wetted dense clay blocks prepared by a new method ("DW" technique).

This is supported by natural environment and analogue observations that show clay deposits to contain very old tree segments and dense clay lenses in sediments to contain much smaller, less diverse and less active microbial populations than more porous sediments.

Because of the high sodium content and dense, clay-rich subsoil, irrigated agriculture of these soils requires extensive reclamation through leaching with fresh water and the construction of engineered drainage systems.

But the heavy, dense clays and chalks that supported the construction of so many tunnels in the region are also remarkably good thermal insulators, which means they hold onto a lot of heat.

For further precision, a farmer can use soil-moisture probes to let him know how much water each bit of a field is using, since denser, clay-based soil requires less irrigation than looser, sandy soil.The farmer, or his agent, uploads all this information into a piece of software written by one of the companies involved.

In contrast, the denser, clay-rich, heterogeneous soils such as those at the PN site may have restricted root growth and performance of trees at that site.

In contrast, denser, clay-rich, heterogeneous soils (such as those at the Palmerston North sites of earlier studies) may have restricted root growth and induced more asymmetric lateral root distributions (e.g. Vine 1980b).