Sentence examples for bedrock at the from inspiring English sources

The exposing of bedrock at the Earth's surface.

Some sinkholes form by the dissolution of bedrock at the intersections of joints or fractures.

Large areas of the Namib are completely soilless, with bedrock at the surface.

While bedrock at the South Pole is pretty close to sea level, the ice sheet itself stretches to an altitude of 9,300 feet.

Groundwater seepage from the sandstone contributes to local disintegration of the bedrock at the bases of cliffs, thereby undermining slopes and leading to backwearing.

Later that month, the beam was installed in the bedrock at the base of 1 World Trade Center as part of the 27 giant box columns supporting the building.

We could not detect the engineering bedrock at these sites.

The rapid responses to rainfall (⩽2 h) with little seasonal variations were observed to the monitoring wells installed at the subsoil and soil/bedrock interface, as well as those in the shallow or deep bedrocks at the base of the hillslope.

We could not determine the velocity in the engineering bedrock at sites on the alluvial basin because of the thick first and second layers.

Such pictures of bedrock, at depth, gave the researchers further confirmation that the seismic and conductivity measurements did indeed reveal fractured zones.

Our data suggest that bedrock fracturing at the Earth's surface modulates threshold hillslope angles, whereas the depth of bedrock fracturing influences the magnitude and frequency of landslide response to tectonic rock uplift.