Sentence examples for soil loses from inspiring English sources

And because sandier soil loses its adhesive properties in dry conditions, it pulls away from foundations.

As land is cleared for agriculture, for instance, the soil loses stability and more particles are blown into the atmosphere.

We inferred that local displacement may be ground subsidence, because soil liquefaction can cause soil grains to rearrange into a more dense packing due to the phenomena that a mass of soil loses its shear resistance and pore water pressures increase, and such displacement is at liquefaction locations where the ground surface is flat.

In societies experiencing shifting cultivation where land is cleared quickly and farmed until the soil loses fertility, slash and burn clearing is often considered the least expensive way to prepare land for future use.

In these investigations, the difference between the mass that the plants gain and the mass that the soil loses make it obvious that the mass must be coming from somewhere else.

These naïve conceptions persist in students who have studied photosynthesis and cellular respiration and who have conducted matter-tracing investigations that show that growing plants gain far more mass than the soil loses, similar to van Helmont's famous experiment (Hershey, 1991; O'Connell, 2008).

They range from less than 0.02 to more than 10 metric tons per hectare (0.01 to 4.5 tons per acre) of soil lost annually.

In "Ur of the Chaldees," Leonard Woolley asked: "Why, if Ur was an empire's capital, if Sumer was once a vast granary, has the population dwindled to nothing, the very soil lost its virtue?" The answer -- the reason "the very soil lost its virtue" -- is that heavy irrigation in a hot, dry climate leads to a gradual accumulation of salt in the soil.

He was chummy with tycoons, but if a son of the soil lost his job there would soon be a strike called and a mob outside the factory.His glory years came when religious riots, claiming more than 1,000 lives, tore through Mumbai in the early 1990s.

Warren Gatland's side were denied a first Test win against the Boks on South African soil, losing 31-30 late on in June.

n-Hexane in 2 g soil lost about 90% of its mass after 120 min of vaporization, and the δ13C of the residue shifted 3.3‰.