What is "surface soil"

Usage examples of "surface soil".

I threw myself into a gondola, and in order not to get chilled I landed at the 'ridotto'.

Seedlings will even successfully develop and flower under trees, whose shelter creates an area of summer dryness in the surface soil, but, of course, though such conditions may be allowable when Angelica is grown merely as an ornamental plant, it must be given the best treatment as regards suitable soil and situation when grown for its use commercially.

And across the entire planet, the surface soil was sterile, thanks to the planet's unkind lack of an ozone layer.

Before lunch-time the power shovels had skinned off the surface soil from an area about the size of two football fields-some one thousand feet on each side-bigger than a square containing four city blocks.

He seized the spade, stretched up with it and began loosening the surface soil.

Putting down her bowl, she brushed away the surface soil and exposed what looked like a thick glossy pink cord buried a short distance underneath.

Inside was a dish filled halfway with Martian surface soil, scooped very carefully right off the Martian desert and returned to Luna undisturbed.