residual soils in a sentence
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- "Loss of suction forces in silty materials, leading to generally shallow failures ( this may be an important mechanism in residual soils in tropical areas following deforestation );
- Laterite is a red residual soil in tropical and subtropical regions that is leached of soluble minerals, aluminum hydroxides and silica, but still contains concentrations of iron oxides and iron hydroxides.
- The soils of the Missouri River Valley and surrounding areas are mainly rocky residual soils, which are excellent for viticulture ( growing of grapes / vineyards ) though poor for most agricultural purposes.
- In the past it was widely grown as lowland crop on residual soil water after the harvest of long-season rice, but it has been displaced to a great extent where shorter duration rice varieties are grown.
- In addition, there are twenty-three fields of alluvial placer gold in the region ( nineteen of which were being developed and prospected in 2006 ) and seven residual soil gold fields suitable for open-cut mining in the southeast.
- Residual soils are very deep, highly permeable, and subject to drought, with intermittent, low to medium gradient streams and spring-fed Deschutes and Fremont-Winema National Forests ( including the Gearhart Mountain Wilderness ) and the lower elevations of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument.
- Saprolites form in the lower zones of soil horizons In lateritic regoliths & ndash; regoliths are the loose layer of rocks that rest on the bedrock & ndash; saprolite may be overlain by upper horizons of residual laterite; most of the original profile is preserved by residual soils or transported overburden.