earth's_surface has definitions from the field of geology
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[ noun ] (geology) the outermost level of the land or sea

Synonyms

surface

Examples

"earthquakes originate far below the surface" "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water"

Used in print

(J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)

Most meteoritic material , by the time it reaches the Earth's_surface , has been reduced to dust or to spherules of ablated material in its passage through the atmosphere .

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