Sentence examples for flushing of salts from inspiring English sources

All waters used for irrigation purposes contain some amount of dissolved salt (salinity) which generally comes from weathering of soil, leaching of salts dissolved from geologic marine sediments into the soil solution or groundwater, and flushing of salts off roads, landscapes and stream banks during and after precipitation events.

Short-term processes (e.g., flushing of efflorescent salts) cause within-year deviations from the primary relation but do not obscure the overall increase in salinity.

Hoping to save the small northern Aral, the World Bank and the Kazakhstan government commissioned the Kok-Aral Dam and a series of dikes designed to create spillways to allow the flushing of excess salt from the sea while improving overall water levels.

Since the study area comes under a semi-arid climate, the absence of effective natural flushing activity enhances accumulation of salts and saline water (Cardona et al. 2004).

For the past two years water has flowed in plenty; torrents have surged down riverbeds that had been dry for years, flushing out accumulations of salt and detritus.

These rates of net percolation should have produced observable patterns of salt flushing from the cover and upper shale.

Treatment methods for correcting salt damage include flushing of agricultural land and the dilution of leachate with water.

Internal Solonchaks may also form through leaching of salts from the surface to deeper layers, e.g. by surplus irrigation or by natural flushing of the soil during wet spells.

Slight flushing of the face.

Dr Richardson warns that there will be little or no long-term restoration unless the wetlands are designed to allow enough water to flush through and reduce the tendency of salt and poisonous heavy metals to build up.At the moment, water is being allowed to come in, but nobody is in any hurry to let it out again.

In some locales, they can be made fertile if sufficient water is available to flush excess salts.