Sentences with phrase «young volcanic soils»

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Young trees are planted in black, volcanic soil so new that it often seems the farmers are planting their seedlings in rock instead of soil.

The few young soils, the volcanic ones, are very porous and occur most often in arid and semi-arid regions.

When they bumped up against Isabela, the island was still relatively young, and the abundance of hard volcanic rock (and lack of soil) meant there wasn't much to eat on land.