rock-bound

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It might also be the reaction product of water, rock-bound minerals, and ultraviolet radiation.

From The Verge • Dec. 17, 2014

Senator Butler echoes "Coolidge and Prosperity," and sounds pleasant to wealthy manufacturers, to rock-bound farmers, to red-brick- and-green-shutter folk from the Berkshire Hills to Cape Cod.

From Time Magazine Archive

France is a land of rock-bound social strata.

From Time Magazine Archive

Later, small, sparrowlike John Sloan left the city and painted in rock-bound Gloucester and puebloed Santa Fe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Peter had taken a short cut up the steep rock-bound side of the hill.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford