Sentence examples for thawing ground from inspiring English sources
Yet the bacteria also release nitrates, which stimulate plant growth, so the thawing ground may sometimes become a carbon sink.
The obvious thing to do when spring finally comes to Boston is to wander out onto the Boston Common to inhale the scent of thawing ground.
As icy permafrost melts to form lakes, microbes break down organic matter in the thawing ground beneath the water and release methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
The results of these test programs were reduced to a decision matrix for stabilizing thawing ground, and used during the deployment of US troops in Bosnia during January and February of 1996.
Therefore, variability also exists in the period of thawed ground surface conditions.
For example, while water may drain from existing tundra lakes through thawed ground, other ponds and lakes may form in thawed spots where the surface sinks, creating more aquatic habitat.
It seems like such an insistent gesture, to throw up sprouts in the darkness of a ventilated closet that once held a small oil furnace, with thawed ground so far off in the calendar.
And as the snow melted from the bases of the mountains, the arctic forms would seize on the cleared and thawed ground, always ascending higher and higher, as the warmth increased, whilst their brethren were pursuing their northern journey.
However, the length of the season with thawed ground surface conditions does not determine the mean annual ground surface temperature, it only correlates well with the active layer depths.
We used digital radiography (EDR6 Digital Radiography, Eklin Medical Systems, Santa Clara, California) and fluoroscopy (MD3 Digital Fluoroscopy, Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands) to scan all the thawed ground meat packages (N = 234); we scanned an additional 49 loin steak packages from 16 carcasses in which radiography had revealed fragments near the spine.
Individual mosquito bodies were similarly frozen at –80°C before being thawed, ground, and assayed.
