Meanings
- uncountableThe layer of hardrock that lies beneath any surface soil, clay, silt, gravel, and/or sedimentary rock.
The crack extends down to the baserock and up to the dam crest.
1997, Y. Ohama, Polymers in Concrete, page 1872 more examples
When the baserock appears at the surface, it is called a rock outcrop.
2008, Ikuo Towhata, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, page 104The main difference of the aforementioned attenuation models is that the latter refers to calculations of seismic motion at the surface of the earth, whereas Midorikawa's refers to calculations at the seismic baserock, where seismic baserock is an ideal structure in earthquake engineering.
2013, Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos, Tad S. Murty, Srinivasan Venkatesh, Natural Hazards: State-of-the-Art at the End of the Second Millennium
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