Sentence examples for bedrock surface from inspiring English sources

There, a building protects an exposed bedrock surface that contains the bones of several giant ichthyosaurs.

The ice sheet occupies a saucerlike basin that has a bedrock surface near sea level under most of Greenland.

The other, seen only indirectly by seismic or other remote-sensing techniques, consists of the ice-buried bedrock surface.

Roche moutonnée, ( French: "fleecy rock") English sheepback, or sheep rock, glaciated bedrock surface, usually in the form of rounded knobs.

Three artificial earthquake time-histories are used as control motions at the bedrock surface.

Rock fan, fan-shaped bedrock surface at the foot of a mountain, often where a stream flows out onto a piedmont slope.

Pennsylvanian glacial deposits of the Gondwana Realm are characterized by tillites resting on polished and striated bedrock surfaces.

Much of the shield has been scraped bare by glacial erosion; smooth, bare bedrock surfaces are commonplace.

Subjected to rapid uplift, a meandering stream may cut into bedrock surfaces to produce entrenched or incised meanders.

Cobbles from the alluvial fans are eroding slower than the surrounding steep mountainous bedrock surfaces.

Robert noticed blond shadings of bedrock surfacing from the earth, and for a moment he conjured up humpback whales rising around him, their skin mica-flecked.