basement rock in a sentence

Examples

1. The gneiss basement rocks project through the shallow waters to form small islands in the Inlet.
2. Working on local Precambrian basement rocks, Sederholm instigated a igneous magma into metamorphic rocks at depth.
3. The area is composed of a well defined ridge of silicified brown sandstone overlaying the basement rock.
4. The quartzite, which lies unconformably on gneissic basement rock, has been analyzed for traces of Precambrian life.
5. The islands are of volcanic origin with basement rocks forming between the late Cretaceous and early Eocene.
6. In the structure, metamorphic basement rocks and regionally flat lying sedimentary rocks are uplifted and intensely deformed.
7. South of the zone, basement rocks of the Austroalpine and Penninic nappes form the Central Eastern Alps.
8. The falls are 120 feet ( 36 meters ) in height and tumble over basement rock of granite.
9. All basement rocks beneath the Canterbury Region belong to the Torlesse Composite ( Rakaia and Pahau ) Terrane.
10. The Halsn�y Basement Rock consists of Precambrian rock with elements of gneiss of both sedimentary and magmatic origin.