bedrock
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The shape of the bedrock beneath the ice continues to influence how ice moves across the continent today.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
Blasted into 1.9 billion-year-old stable bedrock in Eurajoki, southwest Finland, the geological repository for spent nuclear waste -- dubbed Onkalo which means "cave" in Finnish -- is nearly ready to start operations.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Enveloping all of this is his bedrock conviction that all men are created equal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
His voice echoed in the damp tunnel where the spent nuclear fuel will be buried in holes drilled into the bedrock, where it will remain harmfully radioactive for thousands of years.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Then I send my thoughts even deeper to the bedrock, where pockets of gas bubble and brew from earth’s intestinal distress as it tries to digest its long and often sad history of life.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing bedrock
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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