Sentence examples for quantities of soil from inspiring English sources

To reach its target of halving radiation levels within two years the government will have to remove large quantities of soil.

They assist in the conversion of litter to humus, move and mix large quantities of soil, and spread the seed of bulbs and other desirable plants.

Thus, pots lost similar quantities of soil water each day, irrespective of differing transpiration rates, and were thus exposed to similar kinetics of water stress imposition.

Human activities directly or indirectly move large quantities of soil, which leave clear topographic signatures on the Earth's morphology.

In addition, it has been reported that in O (Of and Oh) horizons with substantial quantities of soil minerals, microbially retained 137Cs contributes to only a minor portion of the total 137Cs in spruce and beech stands in Germany19.

"During their foraging, food caching and burrowing activities, kangaroo rats make runways through the vegetation and move large quantities of soil, creating many shallow pits and little mounds," the scientists reported.

Remediation strategies were based on both quantity of soil and level of contamination in the soil.

The quality and quantity of soil organic carbon is probably influenced by vegetation traits such as composition and plant species.

Soil texture affected the quantity of soil water migrating during the freeze/thaw process, and more water migrated in interdune areas than in sand dune habitat.

The extrapolation of the quantity of ITS copies, calculated based on real-time PCR data, into quantities of fungal biomass provides potentially a more accurate value of the quantity of soil fungi.

The effect of co-compost application from sewage sludge and pruning waste, on quality and quantity of soil organic carbon (SOC) in four Mediterranean agricultural soils (South Spain), was studied in soil microcosm conditions.