Sentence examples for more stable soils from inspiring English sources

It seems that the early farmers preferred to cultivate the more stable soils on the gentle slopes at the centre of the basin.

Kolari et al. (2004) found that management practices, such as clearcut harvesting had a large impact on the soil C balance, with clearcut sites soil C sources, while non-disturbed sites had more stable soil C balances.

Most of the restoration cost went into the ground as crews dug a 7-foot-deep pit on the house's footprint to be repacked with more stable soil than the indigenous gumbo.

The soils of this population are dominated by eutric cambisol that with natural vegetation had the highest moisture-holding capacity, the highest rates of infiltration are found for natural vegetation soils, structural profile and porous system are more stable in unchanged soils.

This indicates that estrogenic compounds are more stable in natural soils than what is expected from data gathered in lab studies.

Piles are used to transfer the load to deeper, more stable layers of soil.

Cd in the acid soluble fraction decreased by 25 40% in different biochars while it increased in residue fraction, indicating that Cd tends to be more stable in charosphere soil.

Carbon can also be stored in soil as crop residues or humus (a more stable material formed in soil from decaying organic matter).

After the first 300 units or so were constructed within WASH households, Dr Peter Morgan, the inventor of the original Blair VIP, designed a new model that reduced implementation cost and increased efficiency (using 40% less brick and cement materials), and had a wider but shallower pit designed to be more stable in the sandy soils of our study districts (details available at www.aquamor.info).

Mr Withers said the dry weather was helping to keep riverbank soil more stable.

Better correlations were found between the factors and parameters of the stiff VCO-tine than for the flexible S-tine and correlations between draught and vertical forces were high, but lateral forces were more random in less wet soil due to soil failure than in wetter soil which was more stable.