Sentence examples for soil lost from inspiring English sources

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.

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‰.

Over 28 years of bare fallow the top soil lost about 10 t/ha of SOC and > 1 t/ha of TN.

The revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE) models soil lost to water erosion as a function of climate erosivity (the degree to which rainfall can result in erosion), topography, soil erodibility, and land use/management.

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.

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

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.

England had fallen to their heaviest Test defeat on Australian soil, losing 15 wickets in the space of 210 minutes on the fifth day.