bedrock
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- noun
- /ˈbɛdˌrɑk/
- Specialized
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roca madre
- But the land surrounding Chichen ITSAL is pocked with sinkholes, where collapsed bedrock reveals an abundant supply of fresh groundwater.
- limestone bedrock
- carbonate bedrock
- depth to bedrock
The Marcellus Shale, our bedrock, our subterranean coral reef.
- The Marcellus Shale, our bedrock, our subterranean coral reef.
- And all of these structures are built on chalk bedrock.
- Dig down, not quite to bedrock.
- They were making gigantic standing stone circles by flattening bedrock.
- And, and when you look at the Sphinx, there's it doesn't, it's obviously sitting on the bedrock, right?
Examples
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Many inherently deep-rooting species can be found in thin soils over bedrock (Stokes et al. 2009).
Academic text (2011) -
After digging through the soil, we finally reached the bedrock underneath.
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There is no bottom level, no bedrock that you can ever reach.
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From the present bottom of the Western Wall to bedrock is sixty feet.
Academic text (1998) -
...in the bedrock beneath this chamber.
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Then we'd have solid bedrock on both banks.
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No, we drilled down to bedrock.
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One was carved out of the bedrock beneath the pyramid at the beginning of its construction.
Academic text (2007) -
In the treeless zones, the soils are quite shallow, and in many places the bedrock is exposed.
Academic text (2002) -
There's bedrock around Chicago, so we were spared the worst of the waves and the quakes.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bedrock comes from the two simple parts bed and rock, meaning the rock that lies like a 'bed' under the soil, so it refers to the hard, solid rock layer below the loose ground.