Sentence examples for weakening soil from inspiring English sources
You are also weakening soil structures that might not come back for hundreds of thousands of years".
In some places, solid earth turns liquid and can swallow cars and roads, or even topple buildings that may be resting on top of the weakening soil.
Liquefaction – a process where the earthquakes can weaken soils, turning them to "Jello", according to BCDC coastal planner Wendy Goodfriend – risks water spouting up from underground onto the streets.
The loss of trees had weakened the soil, and contaminated dirt was flowing into the Anacostia River.
Conservation groups have argued the bills significantly weaken wildlife, soil and water protections in the state, put 2.2m hectares of koala habitat at risk, allow a significant increase in broadscale clearing and increase the state's greenhouse gas emissions.
Our data indicate that a single traffic event may mechanically weaken the soil without inducing major compaction but with influence on the effect of subsequent traffic even after as long an interval as a year (treatments M8 vs M8-1).
The saturated state of the earth following the prolonged downpours had greatly weakened the soil.
It will weaken the soil overall, but it can be corrected with compost.
Soaking of the samples in water was done for 24 h in accordance with the Nigerian general specification (Federal Ministry of Works and Housing 1997) before the determination of the soaked CBR to simulate natural conditions and assess the extent to which the ingress of water would expand and weaken the soils.
Additionally the study revealed that the ingestion of Cd contaminated Chinese cabbage grown in acidic soil (yellow soil) weakened the antioxidant defense system under all levels of contamination (2, 6, and 9 mg·kg−1) which ultimately escalated the oxidative stress in liver cells; however, in case of CS cabbage, a marked oxidative stress was observed only at 9 mg kg−1 Cd level of soil.
Soil aggregation is thus weakened and the soil material disperses.
