Sentence examples for soil sealing from inspiring English sources

Such accelerating urbanization resulted in considerable soil sealing.

Soil "sealing" from the asphalt and concrete of suburban sprawl destroys soil life, as do heavy machinery and pollution.

Italy, in 2016, recorded a soil sealing rate of 2.8% of the entire territory.

Growing soil sealing by artificial surfaces connected with the aforementioned increase in frequency of severe (short and intense) rainfall events must have had an impact on the number of observed urban floods.

The present study aims to evaluate appropriate soil sealing assessment methods that enable to distinguish the surface condition of soils with contrasting characteristics.

The ranking and the correlation between the parameters were used to assess and compare soil sealing formation measured by the different methods.

A survey in a similar context showed that the smaller the municipality, the larger the area of farmland (agricultural soil) sealed per newcomer inhabitant (Fig. 5).

Plant residues that cover the soil surface protect the soil from sealing and crusting by raindrop impact, thereby enhancing rainwater infiltration and reducing runoff.

Since then, the Monfort Trusts, the owner of Munsey's original location and a dozen or so adjoining stores, has spent $300,000 for remediation, removing 30 tons of tainted soil and sealing the basement room, which is off a common corridor that runs beneath all the stores.

This happens because near-zero infiltration conditions are common in Mediterranean and semi-arid hillslopes with soil surface sealing (structural crust), and last until the sealing layer is fully wetted.

While increasing droplet size may reduce the effect from foliar absorption, a further assessment needs to be made of the effect of droplet size on soil dispersion, sealing and compaction which could cause greater runoff.