Sentence examples for bedrock strata from inspiring English sources
Support for the bridge is provided by barrettes that pass through 30 m of superficial Quaternary formations into bedrock strata of the Carboniferous Bettisfield Formation.
The bedrock strata that underlie the island are much older, dating to Late Silurian and Early Devonian time, about 400 to years ago.
By studying the regularity of strata movements in deep mining, a coupled model involved unconsolidated layer and bedrock of deep mining strata composite medium was obtained.
In bedrock geology districts, the stratum in the ground heat exchanger (GHE) borehole varies along the vertical direction.
The methodology could serve as a means to perform a preliminary seismic design of base-isolated building structures founded on homogenous soil-stratum over bedrock.
The problem of the dynamic response of a fully saturated poroelastic soil stratum on bedrock subjected to a moving load is studied by using the theory of Mei and Foda under conditions of plane strain.
Frequency independent expressions are used to determine the stiffness and damping coefficients for the rigid surface foundation on the soil-stratum underlined by bedrock at shallow depth.
Ridges, mountains and even flatlands are typically rooted in rocky strata, such as the bedrock that underlies Manhattan and makes it ideal for erecting skyscrapers.
However, because the traditional influence function is hard to predict for the coupled strata of soil and bedrock, we attempted to construct a series of functions incorporating prediction parameters and H s/H j.
The objective of this study is to assess the effects of soil structure interaction on the response of seismically isolated bridge piers founded on a shallow soil stratum overlying a rigid bedrock and to develop a method that considers soil structure interaction and can be easily applied to the preliminary design of bridges.
The strength of the bedrock is much higher than the loess strata, so a high cohesion and friction angle are assigned.
