Sentence examples for fragmented soil from inspiring English sources

The Burren in County Clare, western Ireland is a glaciated karstic landscape with a fragmented soil and vegetation cover on a predominantly limestone substrate.

The injected slurry (normally cement) and the fragmented soil together create an improved soil mass with better strength, deformability and permeability characteristics.

Being a rare gas, it usually migrates freely through faults and fragmented soils, and may accumulate in caves or water.

Here, to clarify life history traits, we reared individuals under seven different conditions of food provision using litter, fragmented litter and soil, and also analyzed the stable isotope ratios of field-collected specimens to investigate their food resources in the field.

The external dumps are composed of a mixture of fragmented rocks and loose soil.

The dam body consists mainly of soil and fragmented rocks with a few large blocks and boulders covering the crest.

The dam body was mainly composed of loose soil and fragmented rocks with grain sizes of 30 50 cm.

In spatial terms, land-use was shaped by the landscape but also structured to make the most productive use of the small, fragmented areas of better soil in a peat-dominated environment.

Thus a total of 36% less carbon retained in tree biomass and soils in fragmented forests than in contiguous forests.

Likewise, a significantly lower SOC was contained in the soils of fragmented forests (17.26 ± 0.83 t C ha−1) than in contiguous forests (21.62 ± 0.78 t C ha−1) (p < 0.001).

However, residues are already mechanically fragmented and incorporated into the soil by combine harvesters in most arable cropping systems of China, which may diminish the effects of earthworms.