Sentence examples for bedrock has been from inspiring English sources

Its bedrock has been Japan's close alliance with America.

In places, bedrock has been scoured of most surficial debris.

This layer, part of the earth's critical zone – the region from the tops of the trees down to fresh bedrock – has been difficult to explore.

A $17 million energy project in California that was supposed to demonstrate the feasibility of extracting vast amounts of heat from the earth's bedrock has been suspended indefinitely after the drilling essentially snagged on surface rock formations.

Shortly after this we entered perhaps the best part of this coast – the Valley of Rocks, where fossilised bedrock has been exposed by crumbling cliffs and weathered and cracked into fortress-like protrusions.

Yan et al. (2009b) indicate that around 4 5 km of bedrock has been removed over much of the Pearl River drainage and that because the Pearl River has not been involved in large-scale drainage capture, unlike the neighboring large river basins (Brookfield 1998; Zheng et al. 2013; Clift et al. 2006), most of this material has been delivered to the southern Chinese continental margin.

Salamanca, Cáceres and Badajoz are all provinces rich in uranium ore, and in one of them concentrations of radionuclides (U, Th, Ra) in groundwater (bedrock) have been found which were 5 30 times higher than in surface water, whereas one third of the samples contained Ra concentrations that exceeded the recommended limits [ 45].

Bedrock that has been fractured into series of parallel joints can weather into high rock walls known as fins.

When it is done 10 years from now, it will corkscrew three miles in and 1,600 feet down into crystalline gneiss bedrock that has been the foundation of Finland for 1.8 billion years.

Beyond that, Microsoft has maintained throughout its long-running dispute with the Justice Department that its bedrock principle has been to defend what it calls the "freedom to innovate" -- that it must be free to design Windows as it sees fit, unfettered by government oversight.

In past studies, the dependence of the predominant period of long-period ground motions on bedrock depth has been studied by assuming simple sedimentary layer structures (e.g., Kudo1978).