bedrock
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This result stands out because subsurface microbial communities in continental bedrock aquifers are often considered relatively stable.
From Science Daily
The mix of clear-eyed realism with a dreamer’s optimism might be Brooks’ ultimate trick, the bedrock of his mixed-up style of sincere, bittersweet and funny: comedies with a heavy heart.
From Los Angeles Times
The captured CO2 is then mixed with water and injected into bedrock, where it turns into stone.
From Science Daily
He praises Texas’s codification of the business-judgment rule, and for good reason: Delaware developed that doctrine generations ago, and its courts have consistently treated it as a bedrock principle of corporate law.
Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
From Los Angeles Times
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