Comets and carbonaceous asteroids of the appropriate energy disrupt too high, whereas typical iron objects reach and crater the terrestrial surface.

While I've passed many a merry hour in fair Iraq, my peripateticism there has been limited to its terrestrial surfaces.

That much land is roughly equivalent to one-third of the terrestrial surface of the earth.

It was the earthquake period, caused by internal convulsions, which suddenly modified the unsettled features of the terrestrial surface.

Propagation of radiowaves along the terrestrial surface (1961)

Found from the poles to the tropics, from ocean shores to mountaintops, lichens dominate nearly 10 percent of the planet's terrestrial surface.

Grazing occupies 26% of the earth's ice-free terrestrial surface, and feed crop production uses about one third of all arable land.

Note that these numbers are for the terrestrial surface and not really a global average.

We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface.

The emissivities of terrestrial surfaces are all in the range of 0.96 to 0.99 (except for some small desert areas which may be as low as 0.7).