surficial in English

adjective
1
of or relating to the earth's surface.
surficial deposits

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1. Colluvium may be the most ubiquitous surficial deposit

2. At many places, the surficial deposits include bauxites, laterites, alluvium and recent deposits.

3. Differences stem from the variance in bedrock and surficial geology, climate and proximity to the sea.

4. On the basis of their physical properties and their engineering characteristics, the Miocene, Pliocene and Quaternary deposits were divided into six units: unconsolidated man-made fill, unconsolidated surficial recent alluvium, unconsolidated surficial young alluvium, consolidated old alluvium, highly weathered soft rock units and slightly weathered relatively resistant rock units.

5. A surficial geology map, based on airphoto interpretation coupled with ground truthing, will provide a framework within which to interpret the till data.

6. The sites are shallow groundwater systems consisting of alluvial surficial gravels near Fort Macleod, Alberta, and glaciodeltaic sand deposits at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Ontario.

7. It is a surficial expression of the reduction of porosity at depth, due to an increase of actual (unconfined aquifers), or effective (confined aquifers) loading of overburden.

8. The collisional generation of surficial regoliths is one process that modifies pristine Asteroidal material. Furthermore, many meteorites may have evolved in Asteroidal regoliths and achieved Earth-crossing orbits due to collisional fragmentation in the main belt.

9. Airphoto analyses, geologic field mapping, and study of borehole logs and surficial topographic maps in ice-thrust terrains in central Alberta suggest that all these techniques are needed to identify ice-thrust terrains that may or may not have topographic expressions.