"soil" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For example, some soils, like clay soils, retain water better than others, like sandy or silty soils.
- Yellow-faced pocket gophers usually inhabit deep sandy or silty soils that are relatively free from rocks.
- Alkalinity problems are more pronounced in clay soils than in loamy, silty or sandy soils.
- It prefers soft alluvian, sandy, or silty soils along stream bottoms, desert washes, and valleys, rather than rocky terrain.
- Clay soils, composed of very fine particles, have a much higher affinity for water than silty soils.
- Farther to the north, glacial deposits and wind-deposited loess, a silty soil also associated with the glaciers, are intermingled with the residual soils.
- It can be found in damp peaty or silty soils rich in nitrogen, in a Eurosiberian temperate climate.
- Habitat includes disturbed areas of sandy or silty soils, roadsides, grasslands, prairies and forest margins.
- The soils that have developed from the geological source materials, are mainly base-poor, silty and loamy silicate-weathered soils.
- For example, a silty soil is excellent for agriculture, but its weak structure may mean it isn't appropriate for landscaping.
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