The dead are cremated; they cannot be buried in the frozen soil.

The plants need cold winters and deeply frozen soil to survive.

We lay huddled against the frozen soil, and listened, to the growing tumult of their approach.

A short time after that, cattle were collapsing and dying by the hundreds on the frozen soil.

Decomposed bodies are still being found on the frozen soil.

Roots are bound in frozen soil and leaves become desiccated.

He knelt and worked it loose from the frozen soil.

Now they heard him digging at the frozen soil and cursing it.

His story was one of hunger, beatings and death marches over frozen soil.

It was about ten feet across; the black frozen soil stared nakedly at the winter sky.