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Subsoils vs Overburden - What's the difference?

subsoils | overburden |

As nouns the difference between subsoils and overburden

is that subsoils is while overburden is (geology) the rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam.

As a verb overburden is

to overload or overtax.

subsoils

English

Noun

(head)

    • overburden

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To overload or overtax

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) The rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam.
  • *2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 163:
  • *:Such rocks have been changed by baking in a terrestrial pressure-cooker. Then they have been disinterred: kilometres of overburden must have been removed.
  • (archaeology) A sterile stratum that lies above the stratum being investigated

    • References

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