The government, for example, failed to anticipate communities' reluctance to store tons of soil scraped from contaminated yards and fields.
Alexandra, for instance, cooked up her lovely husband Jim, a lean taciturn potter with a limp, from a hollowed pumpkin, a cowboy hat and 'a pinch of Western soil scraped from inside the back fender of a pick-up truck with Colorado plates'.
Sounds and corresponding ground vibrations are generated as the mole forcefully moves soil, scrapes its claws through the soil, and especially when networks of small roots (ubiquitous in most of their habitat) are broken.
"Many areas at our latitude and further north had their soils scraped off by ice sheets during the last ice age," he said.
Next year, Chang'e-5 will land, scrape up surface soil and rocks, drill down 2 meters for samples, and return the haul to Earth, all within 2 weeks or so.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture believes that it is possible to remove 90% of the existing contamination of agricultural land by scraping off the surface soil (sometimes called "topsoil").
The New Yorker, August 22 , 1959P. 95 The U. S. Department of Agriculture believes that it is possible to remove 90% of the existing contamination of agricultural land by scraping off the surface soil (sometimes called "topsoil").
By E. B. White The New Yorker, August 22 , 1959P. 95 The U. S. Department of Agriculture believes that it is possible to remove 90% of the existing contamination of agricultural land by scraping off the surface soil (sometimes called "topsoil").
Marking their territories is done by scraping soil with their feet, bending saplings into distinctive patterns, and leaving excrement.
