Examples of aridity

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One column indicated electrical conductivity in microsiemens per centimeter, whereby higher conductivity was seen to correlate with increased aridity.
Deserts, due to their aridity, are beneficial to archaeology, in particular organic materials such as bone and flesh.
The changes seem to have been alternating periods of humid conditions and aridity.
Measurements of rainfall and atmospheric aridity indicated that the departure from normal conditions during the drought became greater with increasing altitude.
The vegetation within the landscape would have altered depending on the ambient temperature and aridity.
Not only does that warn of increased floods, but worsening aridity and drought in other places.
The forest reduction is concurrent with indices of increased aridity but may also represent the first wave of land clearance.
If quality is to be controlled in a tight and limited way, the price can be that of narrowness and aridity.
The chronic aridity of both polar heartlands has already been noted.
Polar cold may be less other factors, for example aridity or intense seasonality, that characterize polar regions.
The onset of aridity after about 1200 probably led to reduced agricultural productivity.
The animals and plants that live in the deserts are all adapted to cope with extreme heat and extreme aridity, and also with discontinuity.
Except where aridity can be countered by irrigation, low rainfall tends to monoculture and social instability or to the poorest type of cereal farming.
They have been accused of rigidity and aridity, of neglecting evangelism, of lacking social concern.
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