Sentences with phrase «flows over soil»
«Runoff» refers to the water that flows over soil's surface.
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Leave a little space at the top so the soil so runoff does not flow over the edges.
«After the fire, charcoal goes against the grain, with the flow: Soil charcoal became more concentrated over time.»
Methanogens are common on Earth in places devoid of oxygen, such as in the rumens of cows, and could easily have been scraped up by ice flowing over the swampy subglacial soil and incorporated into some of the bottom layers of ice.
In this steep alpine basin, stream temperature variability appears to be enhanced by quick routing of precipitation to the river channel (i.e., direct precipitation / channel interception, rapid surface flow over impermeable bedrock / thin alpine soils, and subsurface flow through highly weathered scree slopes).
However, soil isn't homogeneous with regard to water; different areas of land may flood or not flood given the same flow over them due simply to different substructure.
Over the past week, at least four high - profile papers largely funded by the U.S. government have contributed new evidence, observations, and insight into the role of soil and forests in the global carbon cycle — the flow of material in and out of land, air, life, and sea that's currently broken and getting worse.