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Soil contamination, soil pollution, or land pollution as a part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotic (human-made) chemicals or other...

seven soil deposits in India. They are alluvial soil, black soil, red soil, laterite soil, or arid soil, and forest and mountainous soil, marsh soil. These...

Soil salinity is the salt content in the soil; the process of increasing the salt content is known as salinization. Salts occur naturally within soils...

form the river delta. Over time, this single channel builds a deltaic lobe (such as the bird's-foot of the Mississippi or Ural river deltas), pushing its...

Soil consolidation refers to the mechanical process by which soil changes volume gradually in response to a change in pressure. This happens because soil...

livestock. Crops in the Delta cannot be irrigated using conventional methods due to the highly absorbent quality of the peat soil and irregularities caused...

swampy lowlands. The region adjacent to the ridge is covered with thick deltaic soils, and few fossils are found except in gravel pits. These pits sometimes...

colour and resistivity. Soil texture is determined by the relative proportion of the three kinds of soil mineral particles, called soil separates: sand, silt...

came under the soil and water conservation of the Salcha-Big Delta Soil and Water Sub-District in 1950, known today as the Salcha-Delta Soil and Water Conservation...

Arkansas River Lowlands (also called "the Delta Lowlands"). The underlying impermeable clay layer in the Stuttgart soil series that allowed the region to be...

this water retreats, it leaves behind salts in the delta's soil. During the winter the winds in the delta come from the northeast. The summer monsoonal winds...

Fruit trees are planted here and eucalyptus has been introduced. The rich delta soil is used for the cultivation of grapes, vegetables and flowers. The papyrus...

north. 67% of the delta is inside Bangladesh and only 33% belongs to West-Bengal. Most of the delta is composed of alluvial soils made up by small sediment...

soil mechanics is the area of soil mechanics that encompasses the conceptual models representing the mechanical behavior of saturated remoulded soils...

dissolved substances, notably salt, in the soil is described depending on the hydrological regime and the soil's properties. The model may describe the process...

respectively. The township has a variety of flora and fauna. The township's deltaic soil is prime for hardwood trees including lebbeck, Queen Crepe Myrtles, Bombax...

engineering difficulty in the soft and sometimes unstable Mississippi River Delta soil. For this reason, the foundation included 315 pilings driven to a depth...

root on the mound of soil. Chief's Island (19°12′S 22°48′E / 19.200°S 22.800°E / -19.200; 22.800), the largest island in the delta, was formed by a fault...

Soil salinity control refers to controlling the process and progress of soil salinity to prevent soil degradation by salination and reclamation of already...

Wenzhou, Zhejiang. The Yangtze Delta contains the most fertile soils in all of China. Rice is the dominant crop of the delta, but further inland fishing...