Sentences with phrase «how deep the soil»

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But, Levy says, in recent years there has been an increasing appreciation for salts and how they might create intragranular films of water: Instead of the deep briny lakes or aquifers one might find on Earth, scientists are now looking to «small pockets of briny soils that resist freezing and are chockablock with nutrients.»

«Will more fires and hotter fires burn that layer and release it to the atmosphere and how deep will it burn into the soil?»

Another set of sensors, buried 10 metres deep in the silty soil, will measure how quickly the water seeps in.

A team led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the type of plant inputs (that is, root or needle litter) affected total carbon and nitrogen retention over 10 years, but that soil horizon (essentially, the layer of soil, such as the topsoil organic or deeper mineral layers) affected how the litter - derived soil organic material is stabilized in the long term.

Meanwhile, the impact on soil structure depends on how widely distributed and deep the roots are.The new method, which combines laser scanning and 3D modelling, makes it possible to quickly produce an accurate image of the structure of stumps and roots.

Various salt compounds found deep in the soil of New Mexico's desert may be the key to understanding how crops were cultivated in ancient Chaco Canyon — despite the backdrop of what seems an otherwise arid and desolate landscape, according to a University of Cincinnati study.

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How deep can the soil layer get?

How are soil moisture, surface fluxes, and aerosol properties altered by deep convective precipitation events and seasonal accumulation of precipitation?

Yes, drought (Dai 2010: Drought Under Global Warming for instance), floods, general bunching of rainfall into briefer, heavier rains, and how deep are Canadian soils?

For example, how deep will the soil actually have thawed by the end of the century?