basement rock in a sentence
Examples
- The basement rocks have experienced metamorphism related to their original depth in the Earth's Variscan and Tertiary age.
- Modern geologists have documented four major deformational events that basement rocks and occurred around 1, 700 million years ago.
- The crater is believed to be caused by an impact event due to basement rocks found outside the crater.
- Much of the western two-thirds of the country consists of the Pliocene Pleistocene volcanics deposited on Precambrian basement rocks.
- All of the productive units are of Miocene age, and the underlying basement rocks date to the Jurassic period.
- I put ( an electric ) pickup on my violin, played in basement rock bands and got into improvising.
- Compressive forces detached sedimentary units across western Utah and Nevada from their Precambrian basement rocks and pushed them eastward.
- Many monoclines ( a type of gentle upward fault in the Precambrian basement rocks hidden well below any exposed formations.
- Hidden below a more than 6000 metre thick Mesozoic cover are probably more than 6000 m of Paleozoic basement rocks.
- The Tonto Group units were deposited on an ancient erosion surface ( angular unconformity ) on the Vishnu Basement Rocks.