Sentence examples for old soils from inspiring English sources
At each terrace, we map paleosols (buried old soils), landslide deposits, bedrock and unaltered loess.
After a thousand years under oak, ash and beech, and just half a century of conifer, it is not too late to regrow ancient forests on their old soils – as the Woodland Trust, magnificently, is trying to encourage.
We have old soils, a huge selection of different soil types and climatic ranges for planting grapes.
Old soils have lost a major part of base cations (up to 75% compared to the parent material), Fe and Al, which indicates a continuous high weathering intensity.
The average long-term chemical weathering rate in the watershed, calculated by the loss of base cations integrated over the soil profile, is 35 meq m−2 yr−1—similar to rates in other ∼10 to 15 ka old soils developed on granitic till in temperate climates.
It's best to plant trees in plain old soil".
Limestones, marls, clays, and old soil horizons are present in thicknesses of up to 170 metres (560 feet).
Digging an extra-large hole and filling it with fresh humus and topsoil creates a fertile pocket in a bowl of old soil.
It is good to scrape away a bit of the old soil each year and replace it with fresh, but repotting can wait until the bulbs bulge out at odd angles.
Over in New York last week the old, soiled master of News Corp revels was unveiling his "new News Corp", otherwise a distinctly vulnerable collection of papers from around the globe, many of which have proved a longstanding licence to lose his money.
