Sentences with phrase «feet of soil»

Upon taking possession of the property, the Buyer learned from the Seller's handyman that the Seller had removed foliage from the property which had increased the rate of soil erosion caused by the river, and that the property had experienced ten feet of soil erosion in the past ten years.

Facebook is eschewing the traditional mix of grasses and small shrubs in favor of full - grown trees, which will require laying as much as four feet of soil atop the quarter - mile building.

When she was in Georgia, it was admiration for Ajarry who endured so much and learned how to survive by not challenging the inevitability of her fate, yet defended her three square feet of soil with tenacity, while from her her mother Mabel, she learned to to survive abandonment and being an outcast, fight for what was hers, and take the risk of running — not because she admired Mabel, but because she hated her for leaving her behind and escaping Randall's.

Presumably there are pits the size of cities where the tarry bitumen has been exposed by skimming off up to 75 feet of the soil.

Formed by cosmic rays, the isotope builds up in the top few feet of the soil.

The entire lawn area is covered with a layer of impermeable fabric and up to 10 feet of soil, which county officials say will keep toxic chemicals from escaping into the air.

The amphitheater was built on top of toxic waste beds, and the lawn was covered in an impermeable fabric and up to 10 feet of soil to ensure safety.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has instead said Honeywell can cover over the wastebeds with 1 to 2 feet of soil at a cost of about $ 20 million.

In Washington and Jackson Parks a layer of sand that lies naturally under 2 1/2 feet of soil leaves trees vulnerable to gusty winds and downpours, Schwerner said.

«There's still something out there,» he said, but «in the place of the old nature rears up a new «nature» of our own devising» — a construct where «each cubic yard of air, each square foot of soil is stamped indelibly with our crude imprint, our X.»

These photographs feature the varied denizens of one cubic foot of soil, water, or air from six different locations on Earth.

Take the area of the forest, times a foot of soil — lose that, lose all the biomass in it.

Not exact matches

Hemp phytoremediates contaminated soils, uses much less water to grow than corn, soybean, and cotton, and it doesn't need herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides to grow successfully; hemp does all of this while producing more material in it's twelve or so feet of sun stretching life.

In any case, the biblical contribution to spirituality is not to belittle this world in order to indulge in an otherworldly exaltation but rather to keep our feet in the soil of this good earth and our hands in the soiled workings of human culture and history in order to re-create them.

Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

In a real sense they, at least the older of them, are not really Indian in origin at all, but were produced either before the Aryans had set foot on Indian soil, or were composed by Aryans, i.e., the foreign invaders, before India had had time to put her own impress upon them.

What God waits for in Naaman is the fitful progress of a transformation under way in Naaman even before he sets foot on the soil of Samaria or in the puny Jordan — a slender opening, first apparent when the great warrior takes advice from women and (how could it have been otherwise?)

First, by acting as a humble servant he would wash the soiled feet of his disciples, not only to prepare them for the coming celebration but also looking forward to the time when they would sit at table with Abraham in God's banquet in heaven (Luke 13:29).

Temecula Valley Wine Country has been blessed with a unique microclimate providing cooler summer nights, well - drained decomposed granite soils and a 1500 - foot elevation all of which are ideally suited for growing premium wine grapes.

LaRocca Vineyards is located at 2600 feet elevation on the lower southern slopes of Mount Lassen, where the soil is rich in minerals.

It was famous for, and still is, rich farmlands that boast as much as twenty - four feet of top soil in many areas.

Compost should be applied at the rate of one to four bushels per 100 square feet of garden and then rototilled into the soil.

Chile plants hate getting there feet too wet, particularly when there is not enough climatic heat to drive the process of transpiration (the evaporation of water from both the plant's leaf and the soil).

Nestled on the western edge of the Temecula Valley, Hart Winery capitalizes on the soil and climate of this Southern California AVA at 1,500 feet above sea level to produce premium estate grown Syrah, Sauvignon Blanc, Roussanne, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Tempranillo.

Before setting their foot on the Chinese soil, Arsenal will also travel to Australia for the first part of the pre-season tour where they will face Sydney FC on July 13 and Western Sydney Wanderers on July 15.

Or there's too much foot traffic in the only patch of soil in front of your apartment building.

Dino dared the «Lion of Bourdillion» and his followers who had threatened him with serious consequences should he set his feet on the soil of Lagos.

On account of the February 1976 coup, which claimed Gen. Murtala Muhammad, Obasanjo had summarily condemned Gen. Yakubu Gowon, his former commander - in - chief, thundering «Mr. Gowon» would face trial — and sure conviction and execution — should he set foot on Nigerian soil.

The soil would be moved to a nearby designated site, one that sits a few yards from Smokes Creek and 1,500 feet from the shores of Lake Erie.

Soil and slag with low levels of radioactive material — a remnant of the steel - making process that once took place at RiverBend in South Buffalo — would be buried underneath a foot of clean soil at two locations on the property where workers are finishing the SolarCity solar panel factSoil and slag with low levels of radioactive material — a remnant of the steel - making process that once took place at RiverBend in South Buffalo — would be buried underneath a foot of clean soil at two locations on the property where workers are finishing the SolarCity solar panel factsoil at two locations on the property where workers are finishing the SolarCity solar panel factory.

Ecology and Environment will test soils and beach floor sediment at least 10 - feet deep and determine if any dangerous substances are entering the water from a nearby stormwater drain south of the beach.

The Town Board on March 5 granted an excavation permit to Headriver LLC — which is building a 170,000 - square - foot Walmart just west of Applebee's — that authorizes the importation of 4,615 cubic yard of soil and the exportation of 4,075 cubic yards of soil.

So - called extensive roofs have fairly thin cross sections, including perhaps three inches of soil - like growing material; they weigh from 15 to 25 pounds per square foot when saturated and support low - lying plants.

A green roof, which consists of a roof covered with soil and plants, generally costs about $ 10 per foot, but it lasts longer than a standard roof and provides insulation that cuts down energy costs.

«I can sinter the soil to a foot deep with the first set of magnetrons, then have a second set that melts the top two inches into glass,» he says.

MIT engineering professor Steven Dubowsky proposes creating a swarm of baseball - size probes that can be released by a mother ship several hundred feet above the Martian soil.

Compressional forces, on the other hand — forces that are delivered vertically, such as the impacts of hooves, tires, and feet — can break up the soil and make it vulnerable to wind erosion.

Key Concepts Biodiversity Biology Soil Invertebrates Introduction Do you enjoy walking through piles of autumn leaves and hearing the crunch underneath your feet?

And a metal - rich region of the galaxy will take longer than a metal - poor one to produce a lot of RR Lyraes — just as a forest growing on poor soil will take longer to produce a lot of 100 - foot trees.

«This study is further evidence that the diversity and makeup of the vegetation, and the soil organisms beneath our feet are vitally important in controlling how much carbon is locked up or released from these carbon rich ecosystems.»

In June the probe's eight - foot - long robotic arm exposed white patches of ice in the rust - colored Martian dirt; in July it took bits of the icy soil and studied its composition.

Over the weekend, Phoenix scooped up a shovel - full of ruddy dirt using its 7.7 - foot (2.4 - meter) robotic arm to deposit into its Thermal and Evolved - Gas Analyzer, a suite of tiny, single - use ovens for baking soil and ice samples to study their chemistry.

That's because the sheer weight of hundreds of feet of moist soil is always pushing downward against the bedrock below.

A self - burying probe will dig itself down as far as six feet to recover small samples of soil that are more likely than oxidized surface dust to contain life.

But the Mole can dive to a depth of six feet and return with.0021 ounce of Martian soil trapped in the chamber at its tip.

The overall shape and arrangement of bones in the creature's feet suggests that it was a ground - dweller and may have dug into the soil to forage for grubs or other prey.

To simulate a missile or meteor slamming into soil or sand, the researchers dropped a metal projectile with a rounded tip from a seven - foot - high ceiling into a pit of beads.

Walk through one of its open woodlands and the crusty soil breaks under your feet.

Impact craters at many latitudes sometimes expose thin ice layers a foot or so beneath Mars» surface.132 «At polar latitudes, as much as 50 percent of the upper meter of soil may be [water] ice.»

Those with this Earth sign feel most at peace with dirt under their feet, surrounded by the beauty of wood, soil, and air.