Flintstones' hometown

Usage examples of bedrock.

Underpinning all of it like the fiscal standard in commercial societies lay a bedrock of depravity and violence where in an egalitarian absolute every man was judged by a single standard and that was his readiness to kill.

He knew better than to try to dig emplacements in the Lower Town, of course, recalling the cofferdams that had been necessary in order to get the walls and foundations down to bedrock.

The next step was to have holes cut into the bedrock with precision drills through which borescope cameras could then be inserted.

Only an enormous sum of money, and a bedrock loyalty to John Tremaine had induced her to chance two jumps just to be able to report back to the director about conditions on Sporeworld.

Just the day before, the United Nations had voted to permanently extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which had been the bedrock of our efforts to contain the proliferation of nuclear weapons for more than twenty-five years.

Below, the analogy was perfected by an inverted tree of rootlike plumbing that spread fractally through the diamondoid bedrock of New Chusan, terminating in the warm water of the South China Sea as numberless capillaries arranged in a belt around the smartcoral reef, several dozen nieters beneath the surface.

Unable to find a secure passage down, hi veered westward, a moving target framed by clear sky, with th shod horses slipping and scrambling over the weather-strippei slabs of worn bedrock.

Thirty paces on, she came to the first of the old shrines, a widening of the trail, where level stretches of scraped bedrock reached out to the sides and the walls of the flanking mountains had been cut sheer.

Ever mon aboot knows that the foundations of the auld tower keep goes clear doon tae bedrock.

Impossibly, they were rising, fast, the bedrock splitting the grassy hide, loosing gouts of dust, rock-shards and smoke.

Whatever hellish weapon had vaporized most of the old capital city had reduced the underlying bedrock, along with some of the more durable sands and building materials, to liquidliquid that had been thrown up in a great splash and had somehow frozen in midleap, leaving a gigantic coronet of jagged stone and glass.

He scrabbled past the old flood silts and found himself cocooned in warm bedrock.

A dozen or more thread-thin waterfalls drifted out from both sides of the notch, issuing from fissures in the bedrock.

This was lunar bedrock, anorthosite, buried beyond even the probings and pulverizing of the great impactors.

Ought I to take it upon myself to alter the whole emphasis of our Faith and point out another false belief we had previously held so dear, another area of shifting sand we had before thought immovable bedrock?