Sentence examples for soil cracking from inspiring English sources

This massive volume of percolation was presumably the result of preferential flow stimulated by dry weather clay soil cracking.

Three additional abstraction processes are hypothesized as potential explanations, namely, surface depressions, canopy interception and soil cracking.

Watershed models that address soil cracking phenomena generally use a relationship between shrinkage and current soil water content to estimate the extent of cracking.

Soil cracking was measured on a 10-m × 10-m plot of Laewest clay (fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Typic Hapludert) covered with native tallgrass vegetation on 42 dates during 1989 1998.

Soils do not have a clayey texture throughout the profile; however, the thick and humus-rich mollic horizons, as well as a clay-enriched argic layers, developed directly above vertic horizons have favored soil cracking and shrink swell phenomena in the clayey subsoil.

While the match between predicted and observed SOC profiles at the Vertisol site was weaker this was concluded to be more likely due to the impact of extensive soil cracking which is not explicitly accounted for in the SOC FEM rather than the result of the use of 137Cs transport coefficients.

You did not want to step on any of the brave little blooms that were coming up in this unlikely terrain: bone-dry sandy soil, cracked sheets of dried mud, patches of soil on the ledges of cliffs.

The fields were allowed to dry until the soil cracked and the surface was completely dry.

Soil cracks generated in paddy fields upon drying may be main pathways of preferential flow.

This study indicates that paddy soil cracks generated by AFD cycles can improve water infiltration but its role in preferential flow is minor below the plow pan.

In this paper we aimed to characterize soil cracks in paddy field and to assess their role in preferential flow.