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desert soil

NOUN
  1. a type of soil that develops in arid climates

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  • The faeces contain nitrogen and it is that which fertilises the desert soil.
  • To study the water-holding capacities of desert soil and the soil amended with coal ash and sewage sludge, experiments were designed to simulate rainfall and natural evaporation.
  • Elsewhere, trees must send taproots deep into the hard baked desert soil to draw on underground water.
  • Even though such warm, relatively moist phases usually lasted only a few hundred years, and started out from the skeletal loess desert/semi-desert soils of glacial conditions (with which they are inter-leaved), these buried steppe soils have all the rich organic content of a present-day chernozem soil that has had many thousands of years to build up its carbon (E. Zelikson, Russian Academy of Sciences, pers. comm., The Future of Power Generation: Nuclear Fusion
  • The poor desert soil, the high altitude and low rainfall provided an unlikely haven for the young vines.
  • Fragile cryptobiotic crusts, themselves of significant biological interest, play a critical role throughout the monument, stabilizing the highly erodible desert soils and providing nutrients to plants. Proclamation Of Grand Staircase National Monument
  • The species are dimorphic, living as hyphal saprobes in the desert soil or as unicellular pathogens that convert into multicellular sporulating spherules in the mammalian host.
  • The faeces contain nitrogen and it is that which fertilises the desert soil.
  • The faeces contain nitrogen and it is that which fertilises the desert soil.
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