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US
/ˈsəbˌsɝfəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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beneath the surface
subsurface materials of the moon
How To Use subsurface In A Sentence
- A La Nina needs favorable subsurface water conditions plus strong easterly surface winds to help upwell the cool water. Unthreaded #12 « Climate Audit
- These features probably form in the shallow subsurface and are exhumed by submarine erosion.
- Ground penetrating radar provides an image of the subsurface showing the internal structure of dunes.
- Block and boulder-strewn nubbins and castle koppies (and the tors of south-western England) apparently evolve through the further weathering, in the subsurface, of incipient bornhardts.
- Wave equation time migration fails to image subsurface geological structure correctly in the case of obvious lateral seismic velocity variation.
- In anticipation, the city of Chicago has hired the local office of TranSystems Corp. to prepare preliminary designs for a three-deck subsurface transfer station providing intermodal links.
- The wellhead high pressure wireline control system can conduct close-in tests without bleeding off fluid and pressure, and keeping normal subsurface water injection.
- Rocks in intermediate-burial settings experience chemical compaction as well as subsurface cementation and dissolution.
- Thin layering in sedimentary rocks, preferred orientation of crystals or the presence of fractures in subsurface rocks cause anisotropic wave propagation in rock layers.
- In subsurface ore mining, headings are driven into new ground, level drifts follow the ore, level crosscuts connect drifts, and vertical or inclined raises connect the workings from level to level.