Sentence examples for bedrock composed of from inspiring English sources

The largest and most common caves are those formed by chemical reaction between circulating groundwater and bedrock composed of limestone or dolomite.

Both wells are located in the Piedmont Plateau Province of the Mid-Atlantic United States in an area characterized by unmetamorphosed bedrock composed of red shale.

Karst landscapes are formed by the removal of bedrock (composed in most cases of limestone, dolomite, gypsum, or salt, but in some cases of such normally insoluble rocks as quartzite and granite) in solution through underground routes rather than through surface weathering and surface streams.

In the study area, geologically, it should be thought the engineering bedrock is composed of Bornova melange and seismic bedrock unit is composed of Menderes massif.

It is easy to understand why New York City offers such a paucity of naturally occuring specimens when you consider that most of the city's bedrock is composed of high-grade metamorphics gneiss, marble, and schist 1.1 billion to 435 million years old (Baskerville 1994).

The impacts on catchment hydrology comprised a decline of aquifer hydraulic conductivity and effective porosity, by approximately one order of magnitude, related to a water table lowering of about 17 m within the bedrock aquifer composed of weathered and fractured Hercynian granites and Paleozoic metassediments and of saprolite layers derived therefrom.

The bedrock was composed of dolomite (Upper Triassic Hauptdolomit Formation).

Bedrock composes much of the streambed in the upper and lower reaches of the Kootenay, but in the middle portion, alluvial sediments allow the river to meander over a broader valley floor.

Bedrocks are composed of permo-carboniferous schists and sandstones (Lac du Loup) or from calc-schists (Lago Perso, [40]) with acidic soils and podzols occurring under mature forests.

The underlying bedrock is mainly composed of Carboniferous clay shale and greywacke.

The geology of the borough is unremarkable; the bedrock is mainly composed of sand with patches of clay to the east and west, and superficial deposits (drift) of sand and gravel cover the entire area.