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What does bedrock mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.
  2. A basis or foundation.
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Dams, sea walls, and levees must be founded on firm base material, preferably bedrock.
I don't think it's circular, really, to rely on showing rather than on ratiocination as a bedrock for philosophy.
Wave erosion drives the sea cliff landward creating a planar, gently seaward-dipping bedrock platform.
Exposed layering is steepest in the northern flanks of the dome where it parallels the outer slopes of the bedrock collar.
Alteration of the bedrock produces a regolith, the base of which is known as the weathering front.
A shallow shaft was excavated to bedrock, followed by drilling and blasting.

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