Sentences with phrase «alluvial soils»

A unique climate featuring cooling afternoon breezes combined with rocky alluvial soils creates ideal growing conditions for the vines.

Both of these river valleys possess fertile alluvial soils and have supported considerable cultivation and human settlement.

The park is characterized by gum oak and cypress trees in alluvial soils built up frequent flooding.

The property has since become legend for its singular terroir, characterized by alluvial soils that proved almost unmistakable in any wine produced from its grapes.

These sites enjoy ideal eastern exposures, well - drained alluvial soils and mild summer afternoons, resulting in uniform fruit ripening and cabernets that are both opulent and elegant

Babylonia was rich in its alluvial soil, the age - long deposit of the Euphrates and the Tigris, those two great rivers that year after year unceasingly carried their load of silt to a resting - place, first in the Persian Gulf, then in the swamps that were slowly forming, and at length in the plain which gradually emerged from the waters, though at inundation each year it once again was claimed by the floods that had made it.

Varieties of Vegetation types are there in Bowen like Capsicum, rock melons, tomatoes due to alluvial soil.

The dry climate plus fertile alluvial soil, make Bowen an ideal place to grow a wide variety of small crops, including tomatoes, rockmelons, capsicums and mangoes.

It is 14 kilometres long and 3 kilometres at it widest point, covering an area of 2553 hectares where the fertile alluvial soil and ready waters of the river are used for the cultivation of sultana grapes, lucerne, pecan nuts and even cotton.

The hydrological cycle shapes the soft alluvial soil of the Assam plains and nurtures the agrarian economy.

Not exact matches

The soil structure falls into three main categories: rather naked and rough mountaintops; slopes that have been smoothed and covered with deposits of limestone, sandstone, or marly clay, and small alluvial plains.

Soil and conditions are typical of AVAs with alluvial ancient riverbed cobbled clay.

The few such expanses are the cocoa and earthnut zones of West Africa, the White Highlands and the Kikuyu Reserve in Kenya, the coffee areas of Kenya and Tanganyika, the maize lands in parts of the Rhodesias, the alluvial sugar - cane soils of Mozambique and the cotton soils of the Sudan.

But the new study shows a strong correlation between elevated arsenic concentrations and high soil pH. Infiltration of irrigation water through alkaline topsoil and young alluvial sediments may thus contribute to arsenic enrichment in groundwater.

It is situated in the beautiful Tarana valley of the central tablelands, and the rich alluvial river soil is being used to grow wine grapes.