Sentence examples for soil rises from inspiring English sources

Extracting gases from water becomes cost-effective when the amount of ice in lunar soil rises above 1%, Colaprete said.

With no roots to soak up what little rain does fall, the salt in the soil rises to the surface, rendering the land infertile to human and spider alike.

Sodium ions replace calcium and other ions in clay complexes, transforming the clay to a sticky mass; water percolation is then drastically reduced, and the basicity of the soil rises markedly.

The island, composed of flows of basalt lava lying horizontally and overlaid in most places by lateritic soil, rises precipitously (with some cliffs reaching heights of more than 300 feet [90 m] above sea level) from an extensive submarine ridge.

Brown clouds of soil rose from the fields and gave the air a sepia tint.

After about a hundred yards, unmarked mounds of rich orange soil rose here and there from the grass.

Ranging from 0.25-10mm in length, there are typically around 10,000 per square metre of soil, rising to as many as 200,000 per square metre in some places.

As the levels of both the ocean surface and the mangroves soil rise, so too does the amount of carbon sequestered in the earth - and it can stay there for millennia.

Agricultural irrigation with trans-basin water diversion can effectively relieve the water paucity in arid and semi-arid regions, however, this may be accompanied by eco-environmental problems (e.g., saline soils, rising groundwater levels, water quality problems).

In 1970 he discovered that nonreactive nitrous oxide (N2O), produced naturally by soil bacteria, rises into the stratosphere, where solar energy splits it into two reactive compounds, NO and NO2.

The young shoot, or plumule, is said to be negatively geotropic, because it moves away from the soil; it rises by the extension of either the hypocotyl, the region between the radicle and the cotyledons, or the epicotyl, the segment above the level of the cotyledons.