The memorial to Abraham Lincoln sits on a man-made eminence built with fill from the Potomac River and is supported on concrete pilings sunk 44 to 65 feet
down to bedrock.
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Yet to get
down to bedrock, below the peat bog, would mean drilling deep.
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The bathtub is a nine-block area of the site that was excavated
down to bedrock and hard soils and then ringed by a slurry wall to ensure stability of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers foundations.
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Rochon lost a bit of time setting the foundation for the grocery store by digging
down to bedrock; a job that would normally take four to six weeks took 16 because of the massive amounts of rock it encountered.
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If ever a race exploded the myth the Flat can be a somewhat namby-pamby pastime, then it was this battle royal because it went well beyond a mere test of stamina and took the first three home into the territory where courage has to be mined
down to bedrock.
A ROYAL THRILLER
Under the structure, workers in full personal protection equipment remove soil by excavator and sometimes by hand, digging
down to bedrock to find and remove debris.
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Perhaps the most chilling part of the museum, in its current form, is a battered staircase that leads
down to bedrock, where the exhibits will be displayed.
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The land is unstable and not useable for building, Short says, and his proposal is to extract remaining rock from the ceiling of the mine, taking it
down to bedrock. The operation would crush the rock and sell it.
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Over in Earlville, pickups and 4x4s have worn a dirt road
down to bedrock paved with cephalopods and pelecypods, making it a tantalizing, but hazardous, place to collect.
Prehistoric New York--fossil collecting in the Empire State
and European teams worked to drill
down to bedrock beneath the Greenland ice sheet.
The ice keeper
Twenty-seven pilings go
down to bedrock, and the roof is slate.
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The team drilled more than 2.5km
down to bedrock as part of the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project (NEEM).
Scientist goes back 120,000 years for evidence
Tar sands extraction byproducts include immense rates of carbon emissions, removal of soil
down to bedrock, permanent deforestation of carbon- storing forests, water pollution in the billions of gallons, poisonous sludge ponds that will kill tens of thousands of birds and poison fish, ecological deterioration and depopulation of rural communities accompanied by destruction of local cultures.
LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG
The characterization of the sediments,
down to bedrock, is very important from the seismological point of view in order to study the possible earthquake effects (site effects).
Site Characterization of the Sedimentary Cover at the Himalayan Foothills using Active and Passive Seismic sources for estimation of Earthquake Hazard