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Recent Examples of subsoilVenezuela 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 The tunnel will traverse multiple difficult subsoil layers: a surface of historical and active landfill materials, including spoil from London tunneling projects and decades-old power station fly ash, a thick layer of alluvium composed of silts, clays, and peat, and, finally, highly variable chalk.—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025 Ukraine will also retain the ownership of the subsoil.—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for subsoil
By 1896, the offshore rigs were operational; their pipes extended down through several metres of water and a couple hundred more of seafloor sediment.
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Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
The remains were found partially covered in sediment, and their position on a sediment pile suggests intentional placement, likely as part of a ritual funerary practice.
What Archaeologists Found on the Dannebroge Wreck Divers work in near-darkness amid silt and scattered cannonballs, progressing meter by meter to document and recover objects.
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Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
Divers work in near-darkness amid silt and scattered cannonballs, progressing meter by meter to document and recover objects before the site is altered.
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Samantha Agate,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Apr. 2026
What used to be open water was heading towards alluvium, and oblivion.
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Rob Crossan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Mar. 2026
The tunnel will traverse multiple difficult subsoil layers: a surface of historical and active landfill materials, including spoil from London tunneling projects and decades-old power station fly ash, a thick layer of alluvium composed of silts, clays, and peat, and, finally, highly variable chalk.
Mazzei explains that Il Caggio features a combination of factors ideal for Sangiovese, including altitudes between 1,050 and 1,150 feet, which ensure balanced ripening, and deep and well-drained clay, schist, and calcareous marl soils dotted with a type of sandstone that imparts intense minerality.
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Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
14 Dec. 2025
In Friuli Venezia Giulia, the soils are rich in marl and sandstone, locally referred to as ponca.