Sentence examples for bedrock floor from inspiring English sources

As the valley sank, it was filled by sediments that were eroded from the surrounding hills; in the central part of the valley the bedrock floor is buried beneath as much as 9,000 feet (2,745 metres) of sediment.

For although the water-resistant, 1,000-foot-long new concrete bathtub is in place, workers and machines are constantly sloshing in groundwater from the Hudson that pushes up through fissures in the bedrock floor.

Data from gravimeters show that Death Valley's bedrock floor tilts down toward the east and is deepest under Badwater Basin; there is 9000 feet of fill under Badwater.

"Bruce" gets the bedrock story told.

Some relatives have also protested that arrangement, saying that they want nothing to breach the area below the tower footprints all the way down to the bedrock, six floors below ground.

Active erosion features on resistant bedrock that floors the river at prominent knickpoints demonstrate that the river is currently incising toward base level.

The entrance was hewn into the bedrock and floored and roofed with large slabs of white limestone, most of which have been removed in modern times.

The thicknesses of the granite blocks are 650 and 945 mm, depending on the depth of bedrock below the floor, and the granite blocks are separated from the floor by grooves.

It stands on bedrock or the floor might fall through.

Fortunately there's a tiny community known as Bedrock on the valley floor and its general store is a thing of beauty.

Named for its first chief engineer, Clifford M. Holland, who died just before the project was completed in 1927, the Holland Tunnel consists of two 1.6-mile tubes embedded in bedrock below the river floor.