Sentences with phrase «sandy soil by»

My croft comprises 15 acres, but we also have rights to common grazings on the hill and on the machair, which is the fertile sandy soil by the Atlantic beach.

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In the summer of 1992, Rick DeWitt's pepper garden in Sarasota, Florida, which was planted in sandy, well - drained soil, was destroyed by seventeen inches of rain that fell in just two days.
Mercader and Boesch decided to track the chimp nut - cracking habit back in time by digging into the sandy, muddy rain forest soil nearby for evidence of older tools.
In Namibia of southwestern Africa, the sparse grasslands that develop on deep sandy soils under rainfall between 50 and 100 mm per annum are punctuated by thousands of quasi-circular bare spots, usually surrounded by a ring of taller grass.
Overnight cooling is confined to a shallow vertical thickness of the atmosphere and is aided by the dry atmosphere (less WV GHE) and dry / sandy soils.
The collected stormwater is absorbed by the sandy soil on the top (engineered soil) and stone layer at the bottom, and seeps into the ground underneath in a process called «infiltration».
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