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surface soil

NOUN
  1. the layer of soil on the surface

How To Use surface soil In A Sentence

  • Suitable planting conditions exist when the surface soil is dry and has small hairline cracks that allow it to crumble when moved by the cutting coulters, disk openers, cover blades, and press wheels.
  • It may be argued that this approach is compromised by climatic differences noted here between palaeosols and surface soils.
  • Walking over wet turf and surface soil while the soil beneath is frozen damages the soil structure. The Sun
  • Drilled piles were used to extend the load below the expanse of surface soil.
  • These soils are moderately deep to deep, well-drained loam or silt loam surface soils with loam or silty clay loam subsoils, formed primarily in sandstone residuum.
  • The concentrations of manganese in two samples of surface soil taken from area A were 748 and 629 micrograms per gram, dry weight.
  • After the rain, come wind and sun, to dry off the standing water, — to dry out the free water in the surface soil, and to drink up the water of the subsoil, which is slowly drawn from below. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health
  • Paleocene fossil outcrops abound in the glauconite rich gray clay substrata of the creek banks exposed beneath the deep rich surface soils.
  • If the surface soil have a good proportion of sand, gravel, or organic matter, so as to give it the consistency which is known as "loamy," it will bear any treatment which it may chance to receive in cultivation, or as pasture land; but if it be a decided clay soil, no amount of draining will enable us to work it, or to turn cattle upon it when it is wet with recent rains. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health
  • These soils are moderately deep to deep, well-drained loam or silt loam surface soils with loam or silty clay loam subsoils, formed primarily in sandstone residuum.
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