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Recent Examples of subsoil
Its manganese-rich granite subsoils, combined with traditionally longer fermentations and macerations, produce wines with genuine cellar potential.
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Jill Barth,
Forbes.com,
26 Feb. 2026
Gro-Low sumac struggles like most other plants if the planting bed consists of rock-hard subsoil.
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Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
Venezuela legally retained subsoil ownership but granted or sold broad concessions to foreign operators, such as Royal Dutch-Shell.
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Skip York,
The Conversation,
12 Jan. 2026
The legal infrastructure of Chile’s Mining Code of 1874 further facilitated the private appropriation of subsoil wealth.
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Literary Hub,
3 Oct. 2025
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Jill Barth,
Forbes.com,
26 Feb. 2026
Gro-Low sumac struggles like most other plants if the planting bed consists of rock-hard subsoil.
—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
Venezuela legally retained subsoil ownership but granted or sold broad concessions to foreign operators, such as Royal Dutch-Shell.
—
Skip York,
The Conversation,
12 Jan. 2026
The legal infrastructure of Chile’s Mining Code of 1874 further facilitated the private appropriation of subsoil wealth.
—
Literary Hub,
3 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for subsoil
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subsoil
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At Walhalla Glades, the carbon instead sat within silicate-rich sediment.
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The results showed that even after weeks of biological growth and sediment buildup, which heavily obscured the test targets, the system successfully identified every single weapon.
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The valley floor is silt and loess left by the ice-age Missoula Floods, the glacial-lake megafloods that repeatedly drowned the region.
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The Hansen Dam Aquatic Center pool was constructed in 1999 in a $15-million project to replace a previous pool in the area that was filled with silt.
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What used to be open water was heading towards alluvium, and oblivion.
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At some point, alluvium buried the entire tusk, possibly from major storm flooding.
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Its most intense years stretched from roughly 1934 to 1939, when prolonged heat, failed rains and relentless winds stripped topsoil from farms across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico.
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Never cut big roots or pile on topsoil—opt for groundcovers or call a pro if roots threaten structures.
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Loamy and sandy loams are the ideal soil type.
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Soil types include gravel and sedimentary loam closer to the river and volcanic rock distributed on the hillsides, a combination that adds distinct aromas, flavors, and minerality to the wines made here.
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Freshman Ben Smith became the first NCAA outdoor champion for Oregon in the shot put since Dean Crouser (1982) with a marl of 69-0 1/2.
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Its striking blue-green hues and clarity—allowing visibility of 20 to 30 feet—are due to minimal organic runoff and calcium-rich marl sediment from its glacial origins.
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The Rhône's predominantly granite soils versus Walla Walla's basalt bedrock, riverbed cobbles, and windblown loess.
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The death toll was so high partly because many people lived in cave dwellings carved into soft loess soil.
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This includes decaying plant and animal residues, humus, and living microorganisms.
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Composting in the garden is just a way of speeding up the natural process that creates soil all over the world, as organisms such as bacteria, fungi, insects and earthworms consume dead plants to make humus.
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“Subsoil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subsoil. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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