Sentences with phrase «new soil»

This soil, typically 6 inches or so deep, was formed over long stretches of geological time as new soil formation exceeded the natural rate of erosion.

But sometime within the last century, as human and livestock populations expanded, soil erosion began to exceed new soil formation over large areas.

The fact that it takes 100 years to form 1 cm of new soil under natural temperate grasslands gives an idea of the magnitude of the problem of soil loss in the EU.

Like a farmer who plants in new soil to get the best yield, you'll be a more successful random networker when you go where you've never gone before.

The thin layer of topsoil that covers the earth's land surface was formed over long stretches of geological time as new soil formation exceeded the natural rate of erosion.

No doubt there have been and are many people who have come to America simply to transplant their existing culture onto new soil — in fact, you can make the argument that that was how America was founded in the first place.

On average, he found, plowed land erodes at slightly more than 1 millimeter per year, while new soil builds up at about 0.2 millimeter per year.

He and several co-authors traveled to Mongolia, eastern Kazakhstan and northern China to collect the bulk of 171 new soil samples, while Russian co-authors collected samples near Lake Baikal.

How long this process takes depends not only on how fast plowing pushes soil downhill — and wind or runoff carries it away — but also on how fast the underlying rocks break down to form new soil.

This some what orphaned new soil technology speaks to so many different interests and disciplines that it has not been embraced fully by any.

If necessary, add new soil, mulch and / or sod and lay fertilizer.

«If you're starting from scratch, the first two years of your organic lawn plan maybe more expensive because of the purchase of new soil and new compost,» says Paul Tukey, author of The Organic Lawn Care Manual.

Perhaps still yet another generation or two or even three, in the future, when the whole world will be in population overload, and the immigration factor, possibly due to draught and resulting food shortage will drive mass immigration of people from already overloaded lands to plant their roots in new soil

As long as soil erosion on cropland does not exceed new soil formation, all is well.

Sometime within the last century, soil erosion began to exceed new soil formation.

One of the major impacts of the Church Union in 1970 was that we were able to break the foreign flower pots and readjusting to the new soil, struggling to take roots, searching for water, fertilizer and other such resources to grow, all helped the CNI to recognize the need for new insights, methodologies and paradigms.

It's the image of a farmer plowing a field over and over, turning over new soil, planting new seeds.

Or that scholars as diverse as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Mircea Eliade, and Herbert Marcuse here found a new soil for their work.

And that handy little gadget in the photos below is my new soil block maker - a new and exciting toy in our house this year. -RCB-

At least that's the conclusion of a new study supporting the long - held belief that current farming practices are causing soil to erode more quickly than new soil can be produced.

Between 1893 and 1895, Winogradsky discovered and studied a new soil bacterium, Clostridium pasteurianum, that uses free nitrogen and grows in the absence of oxygen.

These findings underscore the need for more research and tools — such as this new soil organic carbon app — to help choose where and how to foster sequestration of carbon in soils.

Surviving Mars is treading old ground, despite the new soil.

Mine took hold, rooted, and bloomed, even though there were inevitable adjustments to the new soil and climate.

The most successful solution to bringing the lawn back to life is a natural one that involves water, some new soil and a generous sprinkling of the quick - growing premium grass seed mixture.

Many dogs will also like to dig in nice fresh soil, so avoid putting any new soil or plants in for a while, until he is reliably digging in his spot.

The new soil makes the coastal bluffs a healthier place for native plants and animals to thrive.

The latter lost soil 90 times faster than new soil was produced.

Now, nearly a third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, reducing the land's inherent fertility.

Perhaps a third or more of all cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, thereby reducing the land's inherent productivity.

This will encourage them to explore the new soil they're planted into.