frozen soil

collocation in English

meaningsoffrozenandsoil

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frozen
adjective
uk
/ˈfrəʊ.zən/us
/ˈfroʊ.zən/
(of liquid) turned ...
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soil
noun
uk
/sɔɪl/us
/sɔɪl/
the material on the surface of the ground in which ...
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(Definition offrozenandsoilfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Studies of bacteria diversity in permafrost (permanentlyfrozensoil) have been limited to identification of viable cultures.
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In the present studyfrozensoilwith a high ice content was observed to a depth of more than 10 cm during the winter, which may account for the mortality.
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Upper limit of heaving pressure derived by porewater pressure measurements of partiallyfrozensoil.
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A layer of permafrost, orfrozensoil, lies beneath the tundras surface.
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Seeds have been shown to survive infrozensoilof temperatures as low as, attesting to their aptitude as overwintering structures.
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Scallops are created when ice sublimates fromfrozensoil.
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This freezes the ground around each pipe until the whole shaft is surroundedfrozensoil, keeping water out.
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Scallops are caused by ice sublimating fromfrozensoil.
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When there is not sufficient heat to thaw thefrozensoilcompletely, permafrost forms.
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This can have significant effects on the plant communities that are adapted to thefrozensoil, and may also have implications for further climate change.
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In frozen soils, this influence seems to be magnified by the added presence of pore ice.
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Leaching of soil organic carbon from permafrost soils is also accelerated by warming climate and by erosion along river and stream banks freeing the carbon from the previouslyfrozensoil.
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Sincefrozensoil, including permafrost, comprises a large percentage of substrate materials other than ice, it thaws rather than melts even as any ice content melts.
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Fifteen years ago, few considered frozen soils as the environment of living organisms.
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The building's frame was erected deliberately tilted to one side; when thefrozensoilthawed, it settled down - although not enough for a perfect horizontal level.
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But few engineers (often called in to deal with contaminated ground) work with microbiologists - and few microbiologists and biotechnologists know anything of frozen soils.
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Samples were collected with a sterile spatula on the surface of the frozen soils after removal of the snow cover.
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Predicting unfrozen water contents in frozen soils from surface area measurements.
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