topsoil
Example Sentences
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Yet coal mine operators were not legally bound to restore the land, either by replanting trees or replacing the topsoil, nor obligated to compensate landowners for property damage caused by the extraction of coal.
From Salon
The town’s loose topsoil and soft rocks can only support so much and that limit, according to environmentalist Vimlendu Jha, may have already been breached.
From Seattle Times
The town’s loose topsoil and soft rocks can only support so much and that limit, according to environmentalist Vimlendu Jha, may have already been breached.
From Seattle Times
Murray McBride, a professor of soil chemistry at Cornell University, said that when vinyl chloride leaches into topsoil, it’s less dangerous because microbes break it down.
From Washington Post
State officials said those failures pose no direct health risks because a covering of clean topsoil meant residents would not be exposed to lead unless the buried soil was unearthed.
From Los Angeles Times
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