Sentence examples for bedrock measure from inspiring English sources

"The recognition and implementation of children's rights are the bedrock measure of our progress as a civilization," she said.

A series of laboratory experiments was performed on minimally disturbed bedrock cores to measure the diffusive flux both parallel and normal to mineral bedding of four different anisotropic sedimentary rocks.

The dam rises 550feett (168 m) above bedrock and originally measured 3,867 feet (1,179 m) along its crest.

Here we present a large dataset of measured bedrock strength organized by rock units exposed along the length of the trunk Green Colorado River through the iconic Colorado Plateau of the western U.S. Measurements include field compressive tests, fracture spacing, and Selby Rock Mass Strength at 168 localities, as well as 672 individual tensile-strength tests in the laboratory.

c Actual measured bedrock acceleration beneath FSK019.

Basin-wide erosion rates from the central plateau range from 10.1±0.9 to 36.8±3.2mm/kyr, slightly higher than published local erosion rates measured from bedrock surfaces.

A complete analysis involving backward propagation of shear waves to obtain the bedrock acceleration at a measuring station site is carried out, and thereafter a forward propagation is calculated to obtain the computed ground shaking at another measuring station site based on the latter's soil profile.

"The family is the bedrock of society and this measure weakens it," said Senator Francisco Gallinal of the National Party.

Soil depth beneath trees was compared to that of non-tree sites by measuring depth to bedrock beneath rotted tree stumps and at adjacent sites with 1.0 m.

A 120 m hilltop transect on Bodmin Moor, southwest UK, displays a parabolic hilltop form, which implies it is in geomorphic steady state, yet the measured depths to bedrock range almost 6-fold from 14 to 80 cm, and the soil production rates derived from 10Be concentrations in rock at the soil interface range by 2-fold from 10 to 20 m/My.

Such measures form the bedrock of animal emotion research but may have limitations including lack of cross-species generality, absence of theoretical frameworks for predicting how affective states should influence test readouts, and measurement of affective arousal but not affective valence (positivity vs. negativity) [6,7].