Sentence examples for soil forms from inspiring English sources

Associated vegetation and soil forms also show continual variety, but only portions of the dominant woodland that clothed most of the continent when humans first appeared now remain.

Much of its drainage basin of 22,000 square miles (57,000 square km) is floored with silt and clay deposited on the bottom of what was once glacial Lake Souris; this fertile soil forms the basis of a productive agricultural area known for its hard, red spring wheat.

An arch-shaped area of soil forms where the contact force increases above the loose area.

Such different rainfall and temperature regimes engendered varied vegetation and soil forms (Aniya 1985).

To this end, there are 794 German PSM sites representing the regional soil forms, main land use and special pollution scenarios (Fig. 1).

This is based on the fact that under the flooded condition, the soil is under a reductive condition and a large part of Cd in the soil forms CdS with low solubility (Iimura and Ito 1978).

The project added 12 million square feet of office space, and its excavation soil formed Battery Park City.

Equids frequently roll in dry, loose soil forming rolling hollows a common feature of zebra country.

A mound of excavated soil formed above it, reinforcing the roof and retaining the warmth of the sun.

A simple example might be one soil formed on schist (a silicate-containing metamorphic rock rich in mica) juxtaposed with a soil formed on serpentine (a ferromagnesian metamorphic rock rich in olivine).

It is covered with a layer of thin, dry soil, formed through a slow weathering of the coral rocks.