Sentence examples for bedrock lies from inspiring English sources

Of particular worry is West Antarctica, where most of the bedrock lies below sea level.

Tall buildings cannot be constructed where the bedrock lies too far below the surface to access because they would lack the necessary structural support.

Meadows both natural and human-made checker the land, and the gray slate bedrock lies exposed in many places, sliced haphazardly with bone-white quartz and frosted with mosses and lichens.

A shallow stream meanders across a sandy pan; a doleritic intrusion of volcanic bedrock lies just beneath the surface and infuses the water with minerals that the elephants need.

In the deepest region of the basin, top of bedrock lies at ∼200 m below sea level, implying more than 750 m of overdeepening with respect to the current fluvial base level (i.e. lake level).

Though a geologic panel had predicted that the tunnel here would be in solid bedrock far below the bottom of the valley fill, subsequent investigation showed that bedrock lay at a depth of 940 feet, so that at 590 feet the tunnel tapped the Kander River, allowing it and soil of the valley fill to pour into the tunnel, creating a huge depression, or sink, at the surface.

In this paper, we focused on strata consisting of two types of components: bedrock lying above a coal seam and the unconsolidated soil layer.

Our investigation focused on the terrain surrounding the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory (CZO), which is underlain by granitic bedrock and lies outside the limits of recent glaciation, in the heart of the stepped topography described by Wahrhaftig.

They like the bedrock to lie in.

Oil in Louisiana is often found in association with numerous salt domes (blisterlike intrusions in the bedrock), and sulfur lies in the caprock overlying the salt.

What if I told you that, just a few miles down the road, lies Bedrock City?