"We have left the road," said Michael, feeling that he was treading no longer on powdery soil but on short grass.

Then he immediately backed off onto the powdery soil, halting again well away from the blacktop.

With each step, his boots sank ankle-deep in the powdery soil.

He figured he had ingested some of the powdery soil.

But when he arrived at the spot where Frank had been, he found only a couple of footprints in the powdery soil.

Kirk stooped for a handful of the black, powdery soil.

The mesa top was thick with powdery soil and only a sparse growth of weeds.

I dropped the cigarette and ground it hard into the powdery gray soil.

The powdery soil may hold a human footprint or a deer track for weeks.

What if there were pockets of loose powdery soil?