subsoil

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The request from the firm, KoBold Metals, was made about six months ago and involved access to a large quantity of data on the Congolese subsoil in order to digitise it, Ouvry explained.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

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 • Apr. 24, 2025

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

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2024

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 • Apr. 2, 2024

The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding