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2 unusual facts about BedRock


Dolores River

The section from Slickrock to Bedrock, Colorado goes through the goosenecks of a sandstone canyon with several mostly class II rapids.

Heather Suttie

Heather also hosted children's science programme Hyperlinks, ITV2's youth entertainment show Bedrock and appeared on Channel 4's' MovieWatch.


Baiji, Iraq

The town is at one end of the "Sunni Triangle" region which provided the bedrock of Saddam Hussein's support.

Bedrock Records

Bedrock Records has released many singles from artists such as Astro & Glyde, Brancaccio & Aisher, Steve Lawler, Shmuel Flash, Steve Porter, Guy J, Henry Saiz, Stelios Vassiloudis, Electric Rescue, The Japanese Popstars and Jerry Bonham.

Blue Knob State Park

The bedrock in the valleys of the park consists of the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation, consisting of sequences of sandstone, siltstone, and shale.

Cliffed coast

A cliffed coast is made of a loose bedrock material, such as at the Red Cliff on the German island of Sylt, but can also occur in hard rock like the red sandstone cliffs on Heligoland.

Contact Press Images

"Just Another War", by Kenneth Jarecke, Exene Cervenka, Zezene Cervenka, Bedrock Press (September 1995), ISBN 0-9634784-1-9

Custer, South Dakota

Custer is home to the Bedrock City campground, which attracts visitors to its construction of the fictional town of Bedrock from the animated television series The Flintstones.

Decaturville crater

The effect that this impact had on the surrounding bedrock can be seen in a roadcut that runs along Highway 5 about 16 miles north of Lebanon.

Dumble

Such areas are generally to the south of Southwell where the clay bedrock plateau made up of Mercia Mudstone is dissected by a number of streams, forming steep sided, wooded valleys.

Feltville

Feltville Formation, a mapped bedrock unit, named for the above district

First American National Bank

In 1971, construction of the First American Center (now the Regions Center) in downtown Nashville resulted in the discovery of the skeleton of a sabertooth cat (Smilodon floridanus) within a cave beneath the bedrock.

Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo

In 1980, the Shmoo joined Fred and Barney on the "Bedrock Cops" segment of The Flintstone Comedy Show.

Gudda Gudda

Gudda was featured on Birdman's album Pricele$$ on the track "Hustle" and prominently featured on the Young Money group album We Are Young Money being featured on the hit singles "Every Girl" and "BedRock", along with another eight tracks.

Hans Cloos

In 2006, Cloos was featured in the book Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores (Trinity University Press) which looks at how writing pays a tribute to the Earth's geological features.

Heathfield and Waldron

Its sandstone bedrock containing samples of fossilised Lycopodites.

Herbert E. Gregory

His seminal work included mapping much of the bedrock geology of the Colorado Plateau, particularly in geologic monographs concentrating on what is now the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona and southeastern Utah.

Howell Mountains

Although bedrock in most parts of the Howell Mountains is a geologic formation of volcanic origin known as the Sonoma Volcanics, older sedimentary rocks of the Cretaceous age Great Valley Sequence are found in the Benecia area at the southern end of the range, and in the Lake Hennessey area to the east of St. Helena.

Isabella Bird

In 2006, Bird was featured in Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores (Trinity University Press) which looks at writing over the years and how it pays tribute to the Earth and its geological features.

Jan DeBlieu

In 2006, she was featured in the book Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores (Trinity University Press) which looks at how writing pays a tribute to the Earth's geological features.

Lockatong

Lockatong Formation, a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York

Mahantango

Mahantango Formation, a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Maryland

Oslo Graben

The bedrock in this area, roughly from Skien to Oslo and Mjøsa, results in soil rich in nutrients important for plant growth.

Planet, Arizona

The geology of the Planet area is ancient, estimated to be Precambrian, the bedrock being made up mostly of pinkish gneiss and absorbed limestone and amphibolite, which contained hematite-copper.

Shovel test pit

The depth of an STP depends on the depth at which either the bedrock or the sterile subsoil is found.

Tonoloway

Tonoloway Formation, a limestone bedrock unit in the Appalachian Mountains


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