Sentence examples for material soil and from inspiring English sources

To the Earth scientist, the crust includes not only the top layer of solid material (soil and rocks to a depth of 6 to 70 km [4 to 44 miles], separated from the underlying mantle by differences in density and by susceptibility to surficial geologic processes) but also the hydrosphere (oceans, surface waters on land, and groundwater beneath the land surface) and the atmosphere.

The most important microhabitat is deadwood, but also the bark of living trees (corticolous myxomycetes), rotting plant material, soil and animal excrements.

Man-made material, undigestible plant material, soil, and small amounts of raccoon dog hairs presumably ingested during grooming were excluded, as were the ingested baits from the traps.

One hundred mature workers (collected from raids), 60 callows (newly hatched workers), approximately 40 larvae, 30 pupae, 21 silverfish and 10 non-myrmecophilous isopods (as a control) were kept in a nest constructed from natural materials (soil and leaf litter).

The media types such as aquifer material, soil type and impact of vadose zone, cannot be measured numerically and hence ratings were assigned to each type of media.

He said the teams have collected samples of raw material, soil, water and plants.

Three incubation experiments were carried out under oxidizing conditions for 6 weeks using two acid sulfate soils: one with hyposulfidic material (soil Hypo) and one with hypersulfidic material (soil Hyper).

Results from the transects confirm that soil samples collected at a 40-km spacing reveal coherent, continental- to subcontinental-scale geochemical and mineralogical patterns that can be correlated to aspects of underlying soil parent material, soil age and climate influence.

The key term was "storage capacity controlling properties", involving, for example, measurements of the consumption of buffer substances in waste materials, soils and sediments.

The problem was analyzed, employing the finite element method and taking account of material (soil, steel superstructure) and geometric (uplifting and P-Δ effects) nonlinearities.

Based on FA/PCA, parent rock material, soil weathering, municipal and poultry waste, surface runoff from urban and agricultural land, automobile and laundry washing are the main source of inputs of contaminants into the feeding streams of Rawal Lake Reservoir.