Sentence examples for or windblown from inspiring English sources

Muck and peat soils are found within the coastal marshes, while the bottoms hold rich alluvial soils: the lighter and coarser bottom soils of the Mississippi and Red River valleys and the older alluvium and loessial, or windblown, soils.

Our drift definition is broader than U.S. EPA's "spray or dust drift" definition, which excludes postapplication drift caused by erosion, migration, volatility, or windblown soil particles (U.S. EPA 2001).

A continuous bead of asphalt could trap condensation or windblown water under the roofing at some point.

Goats do not like being wet or windblown and should be given a good shelter to get out of the elements.

Loess is a homogeneous, typically nonstratified, porous, friable, slightly coherent, often calcareous, fine-grained, silty, pale yellow or buff, windblown (Aeolian) sediment.

The transportation of wind-eroded material continues until the velocity of the wind can no longer sustain the size particle being transported or until the windblown particles collide with or cling to a surface feature.

IT IS a staple of television reports on war or famine: a windblown correspondent stands in front of a bedraggled refugee camp.

That stationary-camera view of the Baghdad skyline, meanwhile, was becoming more and more familiar and depressing, as we saw it now at dawn and again at midday, with plumes of smoke curling in the background or else with windblown sand whipping past.

Then, after the 1.5-km-or-so-deep lake froze, windblown sediments began to accumulate upon its surface.

Accompanying the last two stages of glaciation were extensive deposits of windblown silt, or loess.

Most foliage invaders are spread from plant to plant by windblown rain or dust.