bedrock
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Another technique involves driving across slopes in ways that help keep the wheels securely positioned on exposed bedrock.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Blasted into 1.9 billion-year-old stable bedrock in Eurajoki in southwestern Finland, the geological repository will house spent nuclear fuel in holes drilled into the bedrock, where it will remain harmfully radioactive for thousands of years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
There were multiple factors involved in that event, which was triggered when a large area of bedrock and glacier ice collapsed.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Wigglesworth: Because the bond market is the bedrock of the financial system.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Beneath the lobby of the Hotel of Bees, a corsair’s cellar has been hacked out of the bedrock.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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