Sentence examples for stony soil from inspiring English sources

The objective of this study was to numerically estimate both the saturated hydraulic conductivity of a stony soil and its dependence on a relative content of rock fragments (stoniness), and the shape, position and distribution of rock fragments in a soil matrix.

New principles rarely take root in Washington's stony soil.

." "We plant our seeds on stony soil," she says.

The Edwards Plateau has thin, stony soil with a limestone bedrock.

Both are hardy plants that can grow on dry, stony soil.

One by one, they went out into the cold and buried their foreskins in stony soil.

Sands, sandy or gravelly loams, shallow stony soils, and alluvium (material deposited by rivers and streams) and scree-derived deposits (rocky material at the base of cliffs) predominate.

By the mid-19th century, the Erie Canal and the railroads had opened the interior of the country, and farmers plowing the thin, stony soils of New England could not compete with produce from the rich fields of the Midwest.

A region of poor and stony soils, Småland has been cultivated through the ages with some difficulty, as evidenced by the enormous mounds of stone cleared from the land.

It prefers well-drained, poor, coarse-textured and stony soils.

Stony soils are known to have reduced nutrients and moisture storage ability (Macadam 1989).