desert soil

Like most desert soils, it has little organic material and is hard to work.

This was no mean feat when you consider that desert soils are more like concrete than dirt.

Desert soils tend to be sandy or rocky, and low in organic materials.

From burrows deep beneath the surface of the desert soil, small creatures start to appear.

The desert soil was rich, lacking only water.

Tests have shown that desert soil treated with the gel can grow rice and wheat.

He began digging into the desert soil and lining the hole with cedar timbers.

Females lay eggs in holes in the desert soil.

A few miles short of the hidden airport, Allard was dipping for the desert soil!

Even the desert soil is alive with ancient crusts of blue-green algae and fungus.

Desert soils contain little humus, and support little vegetation.

This includes the cold desert soil.

This can result in rare flash floods during heavy rains as water runs across the surface of the impervious desert soil.

The dormant bacterial community of Puna grasses is similar to those found in desert soils.

It ranges in color from gray to light reddish brown, making it well camouflaged against desert soil.

Once the rainy season has ended, the surviving toads burrow once more deep into the desert soil.

The fibreglass tires had to be replaced during the chase sequence because the heat and irregular desert soil ruined them.

The steppe has grey desert soil.

A gibbous moon rode high to the south and turned the desert soil of Arizona into unearthly fairyland.

The desert soil is covered with sand and pebbles; there are marshes, lakes and wadis.

Riders and hikers are asked to travel along dry washes as much as possible to reduce the impact on fragile desert soils.

It fanned a trifle and made a myriad little green sparks where it licked the desert soil.

Cold desert soils.

Have you ever witnessed rural peasants grubbing out a living from the dry desert soil in the mountains of Mexico and Peru?

In 1991, the movement of US tanks over the desert damaged the top protective layer of the desert soil.