The earth turned from flat to hilly, the soil darkened from sand to a deep red clay and the citygoers with their cellphones and Miami Heat jerseys gave way to shirtless farmers swinging hoes.
This study characterizes SOC erosion dynamics, including infiltration-associated movement, and discusses the effects of rainfall intensity and slope position on SOC transport within the hilly red soil region of southern China.
In the current project, forest growth on erosion-prone soils was compared with tree growth in non-eroded soils in a plantation forest in mainly hilly land and steepland near Napier.
CASTELNAU DE MONTMIRAL, France — JÉRÔME GALAUP, a fourth-generation farmer here, and his wife, Nathalie, a teacher, share a dream: to combine their professions and create a teaching farm, where new generations can learn about the particularities of this hilly bit of French soil — this terroir.
The area is predominantly an undulated Precambrian hilly terrain with sporadic soil cover.
It is covered by hilly sand and loose soil, and the developments of the vertical joints are rich.
The geology of the city is characterised by hard laterite in hilly tracts and sandy soil along the seashore.
According to John Livingstone-Learmonth, a British writer whose book "The Wines of the Northern Rhone University of California Pressss, 2005) is the definitive work on the region, the thin soils and hilly vineyards of Condrieu are crucial to its success with viognier.
Ninety nine undisturbed clods were collected from surface soils in hilly regions of Cherlgerd, western Iran.
At that time, arable lands were abundant in most places of the watershed and the population pressure was low as a result of which poorly drained soils and hilly areas were not turned to cultivation.
Soils are poor in the hilly areas, which remain largely forested, but soil deposits from the ancient Yoldia Sea, an extension of the Baltic Sea that is believed to have covered the region c. 7500 bce, have produced fertile areas.
