Sentence examples for land runoff from inspiring English sources

Extensive swamps develop mainly where land runoff is sufficient to bring a supply of sediments that accumulate and extend the swamp.

That's because phytoplankton also need iron, and these zones tend to be too far from the river deltas and land runoff that supply it.

Nationwide, this subterranean flow of freshwater accounts for just 1% to 2% of total land runoff, according to the study, which is published today in Science.

Luminescent lines in skeletons of the massive coral Porites record periods when seawater was significantly diluted by land runoff.

This is primarily due to excessive land runoff containing raw sewage and faecal debris, which in turn supports the proliferation of the tested faecal bacteria.

Since weathering effects are not strong in the river basin except land runoff and the river is dead at its source, this factor can be explained as the anthropogenic factor, most likely the urban influence.

The last straw was when some people put hogs on an adjacent hill and carved out channels in the land so runoff from the site would trickle into the campsite.

[Associated Press] India's environmental ministry refuses to sign off on construction of a $31 billion "hill city" in Western India, saying that the developer has not addressed its concerns about land use, runoff and other issues.

Further, the atmospherically deposited substances also reach the river directly or indirectly through land surface runoff (Pandey et al. 2013).

The persistent nature of organophosphorus pesticides and their translocation from agricultural land as runoff or as irrigation return flow can cause residues in water sources.

Microbial activity and water soluble organic carbon (WSOC) in sub-catchment and DOC in land surface runoff increased consistently over time along the gradient of AD input.