Bedrock

:This article is about the type of rock. Bedrock is also the name of the town in which The Flintstones lived.

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Bedrock is the native consolidated rock underlying the Earth's surface. Above the bedrock is usually an area of broken and weathered unconsolidated rock in the basal subsoil. The term implies that the rock lies in beds, or strata. Under any given location on the surface of the planet, rock will be found.

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The term bedrock may be somewhat misleading, since in many locations, the bedrock may change over a short distance, or the technical bedrock may be a thin stratum overlying quite different rock.

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A geologic map of an area will usually show bands of differing rock type exposure, i.e. rock that would be exposed at the surface if all soil were removed. The different rock strata or layers that are indicated may be a result of either nonparallel (sloping) surface erosion at the edges of flat strata or normal surface erosion of tilted strata that has removed the upper portions of higher layers.

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Bedrock: :This article is about the type of rock. Bedrock is also the name of the town in which The Flintstones lived....

The Flintstones: The Flintstones, a Hanna-Barbera animated series, is one of the most successful animated television series of all time, originally running in American prime time for six seasons, from 1960 to 1966, on the ABC network....

Unconsolidated: Loose, unattached, unstratified particles of earth material such as gravel, sand, sediment or dust, without combined rigidity or cohesiveness due to a lack of binding or natural mineral cement (such as gypsum or limestone) to hold it together; as opposed to consolidated....