Meaning of root zone | Babel Free

Definitions

The region of soil in which the roots of plants can effectively extract water and nutrients essential for growth.

Examples

“So, too, repeated watering of this character would only exaggerate the difficulty until the soil of the root zone was too far dried to be further affected in the manner under consideration.”

“Tensiometers placed in the active root zone and near the bottom of the root zone (corresponding to depths of 30 and 60 cm in the figure) provide information that permits control of deep percolation.”

“The root zones demonstrate that repeated injections of different batches of kimberlite magma have occurred and that sufficient time was available for each batch to crystallize completely prior to emplacement of younger magmas”

“If the salt below the root zone just stayed there, it wouldn't be a problem.”

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