subsoil

Example Sentences

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After scraping you’ll likely be left with subsoil, layers of clay or sand, that lack the life-giving nutrients plants require.

From Los Angeles Times

Excavators are then used to dig out the top soil and subsoil.

From BBC

Taiwan’s religious diversity and vitality forms a kind of subsoil of the self-governed island’s identity and values.

From New York Times

If you dig a burial pit into the subsoil, when you take the dead out and backfill it, the soil will be a different color.

From Science Magazine

This man’s house is located in a region with dense clay subsoil.

From Seattle Times