What is "subsurface"

Usage examples of "subsurface".

And there were air, surface, and subsurface antisubmarine groups that attempted to chase any unknown contacts until they were identified.

Prisoners desiring to take a bath had to time their immersions carefully, as the temperature of the flows frequently jumped according to unpredictable variations in subsurface magmatic levels.

In these latest operations, one of our patrols was known to be scouting the Plutonian outback for subsurface tunnels and galleries where unscrupulous adventurers sneak off to hide after preying on our outposts and transports.

All that remains is the thermoelectric transducers interfaced to a deep subsurface magma dome -- but the power output continues to drop.

Standing over their camouflaged burrows, he methodically fried the subsurface instrumentation that had governed their actions.

Using test bores taken at random on the top surface and by direct observation from diggers, we found that they link up, not to a central brain, but to a flat layer of similar rootlets lying just above the subsurface.

Such islands had initially had to be anchored to subsurface structures by mechanical holdfasts because Leon Gantz's techniques of biotech cementation hadn't been around in those days, but anyone who cared to employ gantzers on a sufficiently lavish scale could now make better provision.

She could churn up the subsurface, murder people, and destroy armies, but sending one message to her daughter put her out of commission and ruined her ability to do sorcery.

The subsurface moisture content of the soil and the rate at which it dries out after being exposed by a hoof determine how crumbly the crater walls are.

But just then Donal Graeme, who had accepted the position of War Chief for the Friendlies, carried out his first subsurface extrication of a Friendly expeditionary force from Coby, the airless mining world in the same system as the Exotic worlds and Ste.

Todt descending by silent, hydraulic elevator to the subsurface, the very subsurface, levels below.

Because, Foote intuited, the Gestalt depicted a Yance-man and not one out of all the millions of subsurface tankers.

A subsurface view, and only using a narrow range of frequencies, reveals a nonobvious large-scale structure.

He knew that at one time she had been illegally married to a student commune leader, and that for one year she had lived in the rabbit warrens of Columbia University, along with all the smelly, bearded students kept subsurface lifelong by the pols and the nats.

A more sophisticated prospector will make an effort to deduce the subsurface structures by finding places where the underlying rock layers are exposed, such as outcrops, roadcuts, ditches, wells, and mines.