Sentences with phrase «erode the soil into»

Over time, the release of water over the earth begins to erode the soil into pathways.

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One of the byproducts of that soil system was clay, which eroded down to the sea, trapped organic carbon and thus freed oxygen to percolate into the atmosphere.

That's because the plants are especially tolerant to copper that has eroded into soils from the mother lodes.

And since annual fields are left fallow over winter, the bare soil erodes and leaches fertilizer into streams.

For Florida, that means more rain washing the carbonation into the soil to erode the Karst soils.

(Both cause plant cover to decrease which causes soil moisture decreases often making storms less frequent, less regular, less predictable and more intense, further decreasing plant cover, reducing or killing crops, eroding soil (leading to decreased fertility, water pollution, etc.) and spiraling down into desertification and the creation of wasteland from what had been a fertile, verdant landscape.