Sentence examples for layers of soil from inspiring English sources

Some cover crops are good at breaking up compacted layers of soil.

The striation created by the layers of soil creates "beautiful lines," Ms. Hsu said.

This process, however, only reaches the upper layers of soil, and it can take thousands of years to complete.

Heavy rainfall can cause soil erosion, in which case the iodine-rich upper layers of soil are washed away.

As a result, the thin layers of soil are rich in minerals that impart particular aromas to the wines.

Carbon stored in trees as well as the upper layers of soil is released back into the atmosphere during a fire.

A local excavation company has offered to improve an access road to the site and remove the first layers of soil.

Methane is poisonous and explosive when diluted in the air, and it can flow long distances through porous layers of soil.

In many municipalities, the favoured method of disposing of solid waste is in sanitary landfills, in which layers of refuse alternate with layers of soil.

The pipes distribute the effluent over a sizable area as it seeps through the gravel and into the underlying layers of soil.

As it flows slowly through layers of soil, the settled wastewater is further treated and purified by both physical and biological processes before it reaches the water table.