Sentence examples for bedrock above from inspiring English sources
As the rescue unfolded in the sequestered work space - "like the inside of a cave, like a cavern with bedrock above you, the earth and water and the elements down there," Lieutenant Blaich said - the sandhogs and other workers gathered around.
When the thickness of the unconsolidated soil layer is constant, the ground deformation and movement rules alter with changes in the bedrock above the coal seam.
Overall, the preponderance of fine-grained rocks (i.e., shale, siltstone, and mudstone) and the layered structure of sedimentary basins will constrain the vertical permeability of bedrock above black shales toward the low end of measured values.
The sedimentation of the older phase starts directly above the bedrock or above coarse gravels.
We propose these reaches represent knickpoints, which developed as regional uplift raised tributary bedrock channels above the local fluvial baselevel during glacial intervals, and migrated upstream as the fluvial system was re-established during interglacial periods.
During each period of the aquifer test the extensometer, located in W-03 and 27.7 m from the pumping well, was anchored over 2-m-long sections of (1) a fracture in hydraulic communication with EX-1, (2) a fracture that is not hydraulically connected with EX-1, and (3) an unfractured portion of bedrock directly above the hydraulically connected fracture.
In this paper, we focused on strata consisting of two types of components: bedrock lying above a coal seam and the unconsolidated soil layer.
The presence of a thick (>1000 m) bedrock interval above the top of the fracture zone was consistently found for all of the formations studied.
Thus, for the tallest fractures, 1000 to 2000 m of intact bedrock remained above the upper edge of the fracture zone.
Completed to its final dimensions in 1938, O'Shaughnessy Dam now stands 312 feet above the riverbed and 430 feet above bedrock.
It stands 9 m above its bedrock foundation and 12 m above the Great Plaza, and is accessed by a number of stairways on its south side.
