cohesive soil

noun

1. sticky soil such as clay or clayey silt whose strength depends on the surface tension of capillary water Compare cohesionless soil

Example Sentences

But InSight’s landing place turned out to have cohesive soil, in which the particles stick together more like in a vat of flour, says Tilman Spohn, a space scientist at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, Germany.

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Nothing more effectually disintegrates a cohesive soil than freezing and thawing, and the surface of earth which has just undergone those processes is more subject to erosion by running water than under any other circumstances.

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