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Definition of Bedrocks
1. bedrock [n] - See also: bedrock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedrocks
Literary usage of Bedrocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Permafrost: Second International Conference, July 13-28, 1973 : USSR by Frederick J. Sanger, Peter J. Hyde (1978)
"The origin of ancient valleys is linked with the subsidence, in blocks, of the
bedrocks as a result of tectonic activity and of subsequent river and glacial ..."
2. The Cause of the Glacial Period: Being a Résumé and Discussion of the by Hiram L. True (1902)
"In many places in the above mentioned territory, usually spoken of by geologists
as the drift region, underneath the clay the bedrocks show scratches, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"Crosby shows by the almost universally glaciated surface of the bedrocks beneath
the drift, excepting near the borders of the drift-bearing areas, ..."
4. Journal by California Legislature (1883)
"L bedrocks AND GRAVELS. The bedrocks and gravels of the hydraulic mines are a
very interesting study—at the present time but little is known of them. ..."
5. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1906)
"Of these probably the most common are found on granitoid bedrocks. Many of the
Tertiary volcanoes of the Sierra Nevada were of this type, the lavas over ..."
6. American History and Its Geographic Conditions by Ellen Churchill Semple (1903)
"The extensive prairies and hill country also, by the decay o£ their bedrocks,
had an excellent soil, which eventually was found to yield good crops of ..."
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