subsoil
Speech parts
1. subsoil - Noun
2. subsoil - Verb
Meaning
The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil.
To turn up the subsoil of.
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Examples
A fuel tank at the power plant lost pressure and released 21,000 tonnes of diesel into rivers and subsoil near the city of Norilsk, 2,900 kilometres northeast of Moscow.
A subsoil of gravel, or the presence of hard-pan, is not desirable, as cultivation to a depth of from convert is necessary to produce the best results.
End of the last ice age As northwest Europe slowly began to warm up from 22,000 years ago onward, frozen subsoil and expanded alpine glaciers began to thaw and fall-winter snow covers melted in spring.
Coastal states have the right to harvest mineral and non-living material in the subsoil of its continental shelf, to the exclusion of others.
Gravel ramps are less expensive to construct than concrete ramps and are able to carry heavy road traffic provided the excavation is deep enough to reach solid subsoil.
In its preamble, UNCLOS defines the international seabed area—the part under ISA jurisdiction—as “the seabed and ocean floor and the subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction”.