Sentence examples for powdery soil from inspiring English sources

In a few spots, water seeped through the powdery soil to create small greenish pools.

Then from there, the walking begins up and down hillsides generously studded with rocks half-buried in the powdery soil.

Meanwhile, across broad stretches of the region where the worst drought in memory remains entrenched, farmers and homeowners kick at powdery soil and watch smoke rise.

I know exactly what Mother and Webb looked like, as one photograph survives: two terribly shy little children, piled one atop the other, sit in the dry and powdery soil beneath a Townville pecan tree, one of an allée before my grandparents' home.

A series of experiments showed that the model spot plough performed well in wet-plastic soil, acceptably in dry-powdery soil at higher speed, and somewhat less steadily in dry-solid soil conditions.

Powdery white soil gives the place a lunar feel.

What he found was the vinous equivalent of an oil strike: a vein of powdery red soil reminiscent not of its surroundings in Languedoc, but of far away Burgundy's Côte d'Or.

Chalk can become powdery and stain clothing.

Her powdery skin contrasts with the molasses-caked walls.

E and Z isomers of 3-aryl-1-ferrocenyl-2-triazolyl derivatives, 3, [9] were tested for preventive fungicidal activity against powdery mildew on barley (foliar and soil drench applications) and for curative fungicidal activity against brown rust on wheat (foliar application).

These give way to soils with accumulations of lime and ultimately to desert soils with soluble salt efflorescence (powdery crust) near the surface.