to gley
9.9
To become or make soil very wet and turn grey because water cannot drain
- verb
- /ɡleɪ/
- Specialized
:
encharcar
- If the drainage is poor, the soil may gley and turn a bluish-grey color.
Examples
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Heavy rainfall can gley the soil, causing it to become waterlogged and grey in color.
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The field began to gley after weeks of heavy rain.
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Heavy rainfall can gley the fields, making the soil difficult to cultivate.
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Farmers try to prevent their land from becoming gleyed by improving water flow.
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Farmers often gley their fields to improve soil quality.
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If drainage is insufficient, the soil will gley and develop a bluish-grey appearance.
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Continuous rain may gley the fields, making them unsuitable for cultivation.
How Wet
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb gley is the same word as the noun and means 'to make soil become waterlogged and grey'. So, when land 'gleys' it turns into that wet, sticky gley soil.