Sentence examples for higher bedrock from inspiring English sources

The village secured a piece of land on higher bedrock ground through a land swap with the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 2003, still within reasonable proximity to their traditional hunting lands.

The integrated Rb/Sr ratios of the sedimentary rocks around Wolfville are higher than those of those of igneous rocks in Alaska, likely resulting in higher bedrock 87Sr/86Sr ratios.

The groundwater outflow from aquifers underlying the FM to the Lower Fortescue catchment is constrained by an extremely low hydraulic gradient of <0.0001 and a small 'alluvial outlet' of 0.35 km2 because of relatively high bedrock elevation.

In some reports, Teonimanu was a high (bedrock) island, so 12 m represents a minimum figure for subsidence.

Holloway et al. (1998) found that a California watershed with high bedrock concentrations of N contributed up to 90% of the nitrates in downstream reservoirs.

For example, observations of high baseflow in basins with high bedrock permeability might be correlated across multiple basins, and basins of similar size and soils in close proximity may share equation coefficients to estimate discharge.

In sum, rapid upward migration of HF fluid or brine via bedrock would require the co-occurrence of upward head gradients and high bedrock permeabilities.

Several counties in eastern Pennsylvania overlie the Reading Prong, a physiographic section known to have high bedrock uranium concentrations (Gundersen 1991) and elevated indoor radon levels.

Assigned arsenic levels were higher in bedrock aquifer private wells in New England than in other water source types.

Bedrock that underlies some parts of the shelf is overlain by a thin (< 1 m?) sediment veneer, recognized based on high backscatter, flat relief, continuity with moderate to high relief bedrock outcrops, and (in some cases) high-resolution, seismic-reflection data (Qms/Qtbu. Qms/Tbu, Qms/Tm).

Ice segregation within the rock mass has been interpreted as one of the mechanisms involved in high mountain bedrock degradation.