0 the hard area of rock in the ground that holds up the loose soil above --
1 the main principles on which something is based: --
2 the hard, solid area of rock in the ground that supports the earth above it --
The bedrock of the peninsula is fairly well described.
The large number and size of the sandstone fragments on the fields suggests close vicinity of the bedrock.
The marl layer represents the clean bedrock base beneath the structure.
Although this bedrock cache was the earliest ar tifactual evidence of ritual activity at this location, it was not the first ritual action.
Ties of reciprocity are a social bedrock for individual wellbeing and societal stability.
Such works are still the bedrocks of national canons, and usually mandatory elements of high school curricula.
Landslides are very common along the river bank as cliff-like bedrocks are well exposed along the river valley wall.
Annular patterns form on domes of alternating weak and hard bedrocks.