Sentence examples for earth soils from inspiring English sources

It is indented with numerous bays; those on the west coast are rimmed with terra rossa (red earth) soils and support cattle and sheep.

Scientists have been examining what are known as "Amazonian dark earth soils," small, fertile islands that were built up by pre-Columbian Indian tribes and that have especially high concentrations of phosphorous.

The subhumid plains and tablelands of the Vojvodina north and east of the Danube are characterized by organically rich black earth soils (chernozems) derived from the decaying root systems of countless generations of native grasses.

Brown earth soils, forming arable loams, are extensive and are derived from the ancient Silurian rocks of the southeast some 420 million years old and from the more recent basalts of the northeast.

More than 15 soil types occur in Armenia, including light brown alluvial soils found in the Aras River plain and the Ararat Plain, poor in humus but still intensively cultivated; rich brown soils, found at higher elevations in the hill country; and chernozem (black earth) soils, which cover much of the higher steppe region.

Different and sometimes contradictory proportions of clay, silt, sand and gravel are proposed for rammed earth soils.

Some climate-related variation can be detected within the French brown earth group; in the high-rainfall and somewhat cool conditions of northwestern France, carbonates and other minerals tend to be leached downward, producing a degraded brown earth soil of higher acidity and lesser fertility; locally this may approach the nature of the north European podzol.

Pseudomonas corrugata, strain 2140, a biological control agent of take-all disease of wheat, was originally isolated from an acidic red-brown earth soil in New South Wales, Australia.

Landslide is the movement of a mass of rock, debris or earth (soil) down a slope and landslide susceptibility is a quantitative or qualitative assessment of landslide about its classification, volume (or area) and spatial distribution (IUGS 1997, Fell et al. 2008).

Humility comes from the root word humus, which means earth, soil.

She had no choice but to do as she was told, the dusty red earth soiling her beautiful Sunday clothes and her sparkly yellow shoes.