What's the difference between hydrology and soil?

Hydrology


Definition:

  • (n.) The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is important to remember that the behavior of contaminants in the subsurface is influenced by chemical and hydrologic parameters as well as biotic considerations, and that a wholistic understanding of these processes will be required for successful ground-water quality management.
  • (2) The equilibrium troubles occuring in connection with cervical locomotoric diseases and their otorhino-laryngologic relations have been studied in the ORL Department of National Institute of Rheumatism and Medical Hydrology.
  • (3) "If it carries on like this for another few months things may improve [from a hydrological point of view].
  • (4) The hydrological origin of epidemy was not probable.
  • (5) Once the landslides have stopped, our technical team in the area will assess the situation, and once we get their report we can try and get the water flowing again,” Rishiram Sharma, head of the department of hydrology and meteorology, said.
  • (6) In May, the public sector research body, the Centre for Hydrology and Ecology , reported soils were some of the driest seen in England and Wales for at least 50 years.
  • (7) However we have to consider that during this second research year the hydrological conditions of the river Po have been very similar to the average ones of the last 30-40 years.
  • (8) The magnitude of that stress, and its spatial extent, will be heavily influenced by rainfall over the next eight to ten weeks," said Terry Marsh, at the centre for Hydrology and Ecology.
  • (9) This model was validated by comparisons made with density estimates from the literature on the temporal and spatial distribution of various life stages and by correspondence with light trap data gathered during the same time and location as the hydrologic data.
  • (10) A fortiori, this method may be applied in hydrology to the determination of these metals in water.
  • (11) What we are currently seeing is the Thames exercising its natural sovereignty over its floodplain,” said Terry Marsh, a hydrologist at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology at Wallingford.
  • (12) The contested IPCC statement reads: "Up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation (Rowell and Moore, 2000)."
  • (13) Hydrologic characteristic of Dnepropetrovsk, which is situated in drought steppe zone, is presented.
  • (14) The relevance of these findings to the hydrological factors which favour red-tide outbreaks is discussed.
  • (15) Uranium is probably unique in its potential for this approach, which seems to have general usefulness in hydrologic investigations.
  • (16) In the place of last year's depiction of the hydrological cycle and 2012's flowers , this year's doodle is half a dozen animated illustrations of species, from the photographer's favourite, the Japanese macaque ( Macaca fuscata) , to the Rufous hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ), a small bird found mostly on the west coast of the US.
  • (17) England and Wales had their driest March in more than 50 years, with some parts of Cambridgeshire having less than 2mm – less than is normally recorded in the Sahara desert at this time of year – according to figures released by the government's centre for hydrology and ecology (CEH).
  • (18) But this year's particularly early spring – the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology reported that some spring species recorded their earliest appearance since records began in the late 1700s – and a poor summer and drought in parts of the country are all thought to have played a part.
  • (19) Hydrologic factors, such as frequency, duration, and intensity of rainfall, are very critical in determining the characteristics of runoff events that provide the transportation to move introduced organisms from their application site.
  • (20) The first model (WaterMod) predicts soil hydrology conditions as a function of weather, agricultural practices, and soil characteristics for a variety of habitats found within the rice agroecosystem which are utilized by Ps.

Soil


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
  • (n.) The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
  • (n.) Land; country.
  • (n.) Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
  • (v. t.) To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
  • (n.) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
  • (n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
  • (n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
  • (v. i.) To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
  • (n.) That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The disappearance of the herbicide, Avadex (40% diallate), from five agricultural soils (differing in either pH, carbon content, or nitrogen content), incubated under sterile and non-sterile conditions, was followed for a period of 20 weeks.
  • (2) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
  • (3) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
  • (4) Fourteen soil bacteriophages active against Rhizobium trifolii W19 have been studied which fall into four structural groups.
  • (5) Recoveries of these 3 herbicides added to soil, wheat, and barley samples at 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 ppm levels were between 65 and 93%.
  • (6) The hypothesis was tested that plaque, as a complex soil comprising microorganisms, cell debris, salivary deposits and other ill-defined organic and inorganic components, would be susceptible to removal by a rinse with high detersive action.
  • (7) While undoubtedly a good understanding of soil microbiology in terms of pedology exists, little is presently known about unsaturated subsoils, and aquifers.
  • (8) The behavior and effects of atmospheric emissions in soils and plants are discussed.
  • (9) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
  • (10) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
  • (11) It is now recognized that dwarfism in males is frequent around the Mediterranean, where wheat is the staple of life and has been grown for 4,000 years on the same soil, thereby resulting in the depletion of zinc.
  • (12) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
  • (13) High concentrations of mercury, cadmium, and lead have also been observed in urban soils.
  • (14) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
  • (15) Adult Persian lime trees grafted on Citrus macrophylla and C. volkameriana were used, planted on a groundwater-affected red ferrilytic soil in the La Habana Province.
  • (16) Recent reports incriminating Acanthamoeba, a small free-living amoeba, wide-spread in environmental soils and waters, in acanthamoebic keratitis cases wearing soft contact lenses, drew attention to cleaning solutions for contact lenses.
  • (17) An enzyme (nitrilase) that converts the herbicide bromoxynil (3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile) to its metabolite 3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzoic acid was shown to be plasmid encoded in the natural soil isolate Klebsiella ozaenae.
  • (18) Forty soil samples from different desert localities in Kuwait were surveyed for keratinophilic and geophilic dermatophytic fungi.
  • (19) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
  • (20) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.