Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous material covering solid rock. It includes dust, soil, broken rock, and other related materials and is present on Earth, the Moon, Mars, some asteroids, and other terrestrial planets and moons. ==Etymology== The term regolith combines two Greek words: rhegos (ῥῆγος), `blanket`, and lithos (λίθ.....
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layer of loose rock overlaying solid rock
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Soil from the moon produced meteorites hitting the surface.
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(from the article `Deimos`) In spite of its tiny gravity, only about a thousandth that of Earth, Deimos has retained considerable amounts of fine regolith (unconsolidated rocky ... ...away slowly—e.g., from the slight warmth of sunlight reflected from distant mountains or crater rims—could be reduced if it gradually became ......
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A layer of loose material, including soil, subsoil, and broken rock, that covers bedrock. On the Moon and many other bodies in the Solar System, it consists mostly of debris produced by meteorite impacts and blankets most of the surface. If the layer is very deep (perhaps a kilometer of more) it is ...
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Loose material, such as dust and rock fragments, covering bedrock.
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A general term used in reference to unconsolidated rock, alluvium or soil material on top of the bed
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The blanket of soil and loose rock fragments overlying the bedrock.
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Loose layer of rocky material overlying bedrock.
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Any solid material lying on top of bedrock. Includes soil, alluvium, and rock fragments weathered from the bedrock.
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The layer of rocky debris and dust made by metoritic impact that forms the uppermost surface of planets, satellites and asteroids.
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Any solid material lying on top of bedrock, including soil and rock fragments.
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Surface layer of loose material that covers most bedrock. It consists of eroded rocky material, volcanic ash, river alluvium, vegetable matter, or a mixture of these known as soil
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A layer of unconsolidated fragmental rock material.
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A general term for the entire layer of mantle of fragmental and loose, incoherent, or unconsolidated rock material, of whatever origin (residual or transported and of very varied character, that nearly everywhere forms the surface of the land and overlies or covers the more coherent bedrock.
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