Definition of "subsoils" []

• Plural form of subsoil. (noun)

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• "IMHO terroir applies to that which is immutable: the soils, the subsoils, the elevation, the exposition, the opening of the countryside, the microclimate."
• "Add to that the cut-and-fill approach for carving developments from hillsides and you are left with hard, mineral subsoils that have no air spaces for plant roots, no organic matter to support beneficial soil microbes and no nutrients to keep the soil food web going."
• "Gneiss, schist, and granite are typical rock types, covered with deep saprolite and mostly red, clayey subsoils."