baserock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The layer of hardrock that lies beneath any surface soil, clay, silt, gravel, and/or sedimentary rock.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The crack extends down to the baserock and up to the dam crest."
- "When the baserock appears at the surface, it is called a rock outcrop."
- "The 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."