solid rock
Example Sentences
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As the tunnel passes beneath San Jacinto’s flank, as much as 2,500 feet of solid rock lies overhead, pierced only by two vertical ventilation shafts.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2025
In the borderlands of south Lebanon, Hezbollah has spent the last 18 years preparing tunnels and positions in solid rock.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024
Previous permeability studies have been performed only on loose sediments that have been consolidated into solid rock.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2024
There have been several supercontinental eras in the past; each were forged when tectonic plates—giant slabs of solid rock floating atop Earth’s mantle—thrust landmasses together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023
The laboratory to which Mr. Loomis reported the next day was eighty feet underground, a place as big as a house, hollowed out of a mountainside of solid rock.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
