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How To Use subsurface In A Sentence

• The oil is trapped in minuscule cells of porous subsurface rocks in so-called sedimentary basins. What Lies Below?
• Devices called lysimeters are sometimes inserted into the ground to collect subsurface water, called leachate.
• Over the course of multiple research missions conducted in the last three months, scientists have employed and tested many techniques to better understand the extent of this unprecedented oil spill and have found fluorometric sampling to be useful to help identify the location and concentration of subsurface oil. NOAA News Releases
• a subsurface flow of water
• Seismic reflection data from NW James Ross Island show maximum dips of 15 to the SE in the subsurface, indicating that the steep dips are confined to a zone close to the basin margin.
• The first option is to extract water from subsurface permafrost and use that water directly in a nuclear or solar steam rocket.
• Four landers will explore for subsurface liquid water using a novel low-frequency sounding method.
• They begin beneath the roadbed where subsurface water meets the advancing frost line and forms a layer of ice, called a lens.
• Alteration in catchment subsurface water balances through land-use change and pumping can affect lake biogeochemical cycles through changes in groundwater flow rates.
• It is thus apparent that the upper oolitic shoals were temporarily subaerially exposed, receiving meteoric water and probably allowing the formation of a lens of fresh water in the subsurface.