Sentence examples for effect on the bedrock from inspiring English sources

As the hollow enlarged and filled with snow and ice, rock debris (or till) contained within the glacial ice also began to abrade the bedrock surface – as the glacial ice moved down the slope, it had a "sandpaper effect" on the bedrock which it scraped.

The illustration of the depth variation of long-period Love wave amplitude in Figure 5b might be suggestive of the weak physical effect of the bedrock on the excitation of long-period Love waves.

Although there is a large scatter of data, this observation implies that the physical effect of the bedrock on long-period ground motions is sufficiently strong to be observable in the shallow part of the basin, but it becomes very weak where the depth of the bedrock exceeds about 2 km. Figure 3 Comparison between the predominant period of long-period horizontal ground motion and bedrock depth.

But we know it would have a profound destabilizing effect on the entire economy, on the world economy, because America is the bedrock of world investment.

"Our results showed that bedrock had, at most, a small effect on the formation of the skyline," the authors concluded.

BRITISH punters may have thought that their stockmarket was based on the bedrock principles of fair play.

"You can't move soil - soil relies on the bedrock to maintain the level it is at".

Evangelical churches are built on the bedrock of financial and emotional exploitation.

We are a nation founded on the bedrock of the sanctity of individual liberty.

Although the bedrock at KTP is overlain with a shallow weathered rock layer, this material has little or no effect on the long-period waves we are using in this study.

That effect constitutes the basis — the bedrock — of her gift.