How to Use subsurface in a Sentence

subsurface

1 of 2 noun

• If there are salts above, the subsurface ocean might have that same brine.
  — Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
• And Uranus’s moons—could some of them have subsurface oceans?
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022
• Before putting down the turf, the dirt or soil subsurface of the area to be covered should be shaped and well tamped.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2021
• The surface can stay warm for a while, but once the heat from the subsurface is gone and the trade winds return, the El Niño event collapses.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
• This data provides a cross-section of the subsurface down to about 1,000 feet.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Brune said in the leak’s first days that the department understood that the event was a subsurface release.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2022
• At its core is a collection of a dozen flies: six dry fly patterns and six subsurface.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2022
• But the spotlight tailed Goodall like a subsurface current.
  — Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
• The video shows a number of air, surface, subsurface, and land assets preparing for the shoot-off.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Sep. 2021
• Finally, when the weight of the topsoil is too much for the weakened subsurface soil to bear, the surface collapses.
  — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
• Unlike a lot of moons around Jupiter and Saturn, which have surface ice or subsurface water, Io is a very dry world.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2024
• Yet another model posits that the great weight of the ice sheets pushed fresh water deep into the subsurface and below caps.
  — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
• The scientists believe that these subsurface pools may be the key to finding alien life on Europa.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Apr. 2022
• These changes indicate the movement of magma in the subsurface.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 June 2023
• Levees and subsurface extracting for resources such as oil and gas, each account for about 40% of the Delta's land loss.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 6 Mar. 2023
• One goal of the Trident mission was to study plumes that could be emitted from a subsurface ocean on Triton, Neptune’s large moon.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021
• In the past week, a sheet of Nyiragongo’s magma infiltrated the shallow subsurface around the shores of Lake Kivu.
  — Robin Andrews, Forbes, 31 May 2021
• Figuring out which compounds are embedded in the icy crust could help give clues to the chemistry of the likely subsurface ocean.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2020
• Hayabusa2 was the first mission to return a subsurface sample from an asteroid to Earth.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
• In a separate project, scientists have used radar technology to shed new light on the subsurface of the moon.
  — Fox News, 9 July 2020
• Titan will be scouring both moons for signs of life residing in each world’s subsurface ocean or, in the case of Titan, on the surface itself.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2021
• Pike also will take subsurface lures such as crankbaits, spinnerbaits and spoons.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Jupiter’s four largest moons may be conspiring to maintain their subsurface oceans.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2020
• That pre-biotic material could be a recipe for life in the subsurface pools.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 21 Apr. 2022
• Rimfax, the radar imager for the Martian subsurface, was designed in Norway.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• Large impacts to Mars may have shaken up the subsurface magma, much like large earthquakes have been linked to volcanic eruptions.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 May 2021
• Europa has long intrigued scientists because the moon has a subsurface ocean beneath a thick shell of ice.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
• This might mean redirecting gutter downspouts, putting in subsurface drain lines to move the water away from the area, or even some regrading.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 21 July 2023
• Brine pools form in places where a sea was cut off from other oceans in the deep past and evaporated, leaving behind subsurface salt deposits.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2022
• After all, Enceladus, a moon of Saturn known to have a subsurface ocean, spurts geysers of water out of fractures in its crust—but the frigid, quiet Mimas stands in stark contrast to that.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024

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subsurface

2 of 2 adjective

• The water, the study said, could be obtained from subsurface ice on Mars.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Sep. 2020
• An antenna will be carried in a cart, pushed in a wheeled unit, or sledded over the ground to acquire subsurface information.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2015
• With this equipment, the researchers can generate a subsurface electrical field to indicate features such as stone or brick walls and old pits.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Far from being an inert snowball, Pluto proved to be an active world of mountains, glaciers and perhaps even a subsurface liquid-water ocean.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• Titan is thought to possess a subsurface liquid ocean that could be a breeding ground for biological life.
  — Neel V. Patel, Slate Magazine, 21 Dec. 2017
• Farmland covers three-quarters of the state and more than a third of cropland has subsurface drainage to reduce excess water, which can assist in nutrient transport.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2021
• Galilean satellites—Europa, Callisto, Ganymede and Io—have long hinted at the presence of subsurface liquid layers.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2020
• For so long, the leading candidates have been mysterious beings hidden in the soil on Mars or tiny creatures swimming in subsurface oceans on icy moons such as Europa and Enceladus.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2020
• Two other targets are Jupiter’s intriguing moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, both of which have geysers believed to signal the presence of subsurface oceans.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2021
• Powered by solar energy, Zhurong will also look for signs of ancient life, including any subsurface water and ice, using a ground-penetrating radar during its 90-day exploration of the Martian surface.
  — NBC News, 22 May 2021
• The peaks might come from subsurface chemical reactions between rocks and water, carbon-rich meteorites that enter the atmosphere, or from sudden releases from reservoirs beneath Mars’ surface.
  — Nisha Gaind, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2018
• Spacecraft haven’t been back since, and scientists are eager to investigate Triton in more depth—particularly the intriguing possibility that the plumes could be coming from a hidden, subsurface ocean.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
• Environmentalist groups have argued subsurface wells beneath the ocean floor would be preferable to protect microscopic marine life.
  — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 19 Apr. 2017
• The team, led by researchers with the Queen Mary University of London, used computer models to analyze the rate of biological and chemical reactions in subsurface microbes and predict the consumption rates of individual microbes, per a statement.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2020
• Property rights harness the discovery process—encouraging efficiency. Perhaps most relevant, however, is the ease with which subsurface mineral rights could be reconfigured.
  — WSJ, 9 Oct. 2017
• Substantial biological diversity exists throughout the huge volume of subsurface habitable environments, which may reach (greater than 5 kilometers in) depth.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Dec. 2020
• The water, the study said, could be obtained from subsurface ice on Mars.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Sep. 2020
• An antenna will be carried in a cart, pushed in a wheeled unit, or sledded over the ground to acquire subsurface information.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2015
• With this equipment, the researchers can generate a subsurface electrical field to indicate features such as stone or brick walls and old pits.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Far from being an inert snowball, Pluto proved to be an active world of mountains, glaciers and perhaps even a subsurface liquid-water ocean.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• Titan is thought to possess a subsurface liquid ocean that could be a breeding ground for biological life.
  — Neel V. Patel, Slate Magazine, 21 Dec. 2017
• Farmland covers three-quarters of the state and more than a third of cropland has subsurface drainage to reduce excess water, which can assist in nutrient transport.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2021
• Galilean satellites—Europa, Callisto, Ganymede and Io—have long hinted at the presence of subsurface liquid layers.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2020
• For so long, the leading candidates have been mysterious beings hidden in the soil on Mars or tiny creatures swimming in subsurface oceans on icy moons such as Europa and Enceladus.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2020
• Two other targets are Jupiter’s intriguing moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, both of which have geysers believed to signal the presence of subsurface oceans.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2021
• Powered by solar energy, Zhurong will also look for signs of ancient life, including any subsurface water and ice, using a ground-penetrating radar during its 90-day exploration of the Martian surface.
  — NBC News, 22 May 2021
• The peaks might come from subsurface chemical reactions between rocks and water, carbon-rich meteorites that enter the atmosphere, or from sudden releases from reservoirs beneath Mars’ surface.
  — Nisha Gaind, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2018
• Spacecraft haven’t been back since, and scientists are eager to investigate Triton in more depth—particularly the intriguing possibility that the plumes could be coming from a hidden, subsurface ocean.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
• Environmentalist groups have argued subsurface wells beneath the ocean floor would be preferable to protect microscopic marine life.
  — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 19 Apr. 2017
• The team, led by researchers with the Queen Mary University of London, used computer models to analyze the rate of biological and chemical reactions in subsurface microbes and predict the consumption rates of individual microbes, per a statement.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024