regolith

• Its plateau of grubby brown regolith was broken by twin calderas. —  Hamilton, Peter F. - [Void 01] - The Dreaming Void
• However, her scans did reveal a cannibalized ship resting on the surface and bonded-regolith tunnels winding away from it like worm casts to eventually disappear into the ground. —  Asimov'sSF,June2007
• But in recent years, with the interest in extracting materials from lunar regolith, there's been some research into how you might go about processing silicates With great difficulty, in current concepts: Proposed processes require seriously nasty reagents like hydrofluoric acid (HF) or free elemental fluorine to break up silicates. —  Magazine - Analog Science Fiction And Fact - 2007 - Issue 03 - March (v1.0) [lit]
• The tracks of the crawler churned dusty regolith, blurring the small cluster of hard-suited figures she could still make out in her side mirrors. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 05 - May 1996
• Ice followed them closely, lapping across the regolith-strewn path like a crazed amoeba, absorbing black dust, mica flakes and glass beads into its probing foot. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 05 - May 1996

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