topsoils

• “I never knew how vital topsoils were before I went down to Kansas to talk to him.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Fast Food Revolutionary

• “The sand and chert gravel surficial materials are covered by sandy loam topsoils.”

  Ecoregions of Tennessee (EPA)

• “We are fishing out oceans, depleting our topsoils, and exhausting our sources of fossil fuel and fresh water.”

  Craig C. Mello - Autobiography

• “The fairly shallow topsoils, coupled with the sandy subsoils provide the excellent drainage neccesary to grow grapevines here in our challenging climate.”

  I Guess Alice Feiring Doesn't Like Long Island Wine...Or Hasn't Tasted Much of It

• “Leave the river deltas for farming and allow the annual floods that replenish their topsoils and ecologies.”

  Archive 2008-10-01

• “As poster Jae correctly states, incoming solar energy is diverted to evaporating water both directly where there is standing water and moist topsoils, and indirectly by promoting evapotranspiration from flora and even some fauna.”

  Unthreaded #21 « Climate Audit

• “The construction of bench terraces can result in reducing crop yields where shallow topsoils overlie undesirable subsoils.”

  1. Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa.

• “In most cases the regions in the survey do not possess similar types of topsoils, rather soil associations are encountered that are influenced by a host of factors; here the landscape relief plays a prominent role.”

  1. Labour productivity and distribution

• “Shallow topsoils have to be deepened by removing or improving of the underlying subsoil, or by making mounds or raised beds of improved soil.”

  5. How plants live and grow

• “Other sites may have gooey, very fine clay topsoils, almost inevitably with gooey, very fine clay subsoils as well.”

  Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway

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