Sentence examples for fragmented soils from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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.

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).

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.

We argue that minimising soil nutrient enrichment of fragmented remnant woodlands is important, given the association of elevated soil nutrition with poor tree health, to ensure the persistence of eucalypts in agricultural landscapes.