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Meaning of "basement rocks"

basement rocks: The lowermost layer of rock in the Earth's crust, usually found beneath sedimentary rocks and containing valuable minerals or fossil fuels

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The basement rocks are influenced by normal faulting.
Analysis of aquifer reservoirs in fractured basement rocks.
The basement rocks have.
There are large iron deposits in the basement rocks.
Grenville crystalline basement rocks do not appear to have contributed significantly to this lead.
The field contains major reserves hosted within highly fractured granitic basement rocks.
Continental metamorphic and granitic basement rocks have been dredged from both knolls.
The spatial arrangement of the lodes points towards local southeasterly extension within the basement rocks.
Basement rocks are metamorphic and date to the Precambrian.
Both sedimentary and basement rocks are intruded by the Sparrow dikes.
Basement rocks are sparsely located around some Triassic plutons.
Cretaceous sediments of the Cenomanian suite unconformably overlay basement rocks.
The oldest basement rocks are volcanic basalt deposits from the Eocene.
The base appears to coincide with the unconformity atop Precambrian basement rocks.
The commune is situated entirely on the metamorphic basement rocks of the northwestern Massif Central.

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Much deeper basement rocks are likely present, although they are not well understood.
The intrusion event half rose Itararé Subgroup sandstones and crystalline basement rocks also.
First the basement rocks of New Zealand formed.
The highlands are characterized by Precambrian basement rocks from the Ukrainian Shield.
Only the crater 's basement rocks remain on the surface in the mountains today.
Thick-skinned deformation refers to shortening that involves basement rocks rather than just the overlying cover.
These plutonic basement rocks are subdivided into the Hohonu, Karamea, Median and Paparoa batholiths.
The commune 's territory is underlain in its totality by Variscan basement rocks Piégut-Pluviers Granodiorite.
Platforms, shields and the basement rocks together constitute cratons.
It rises 305 meters above glaciated basement rocks.
To the north of the N 065-striking fault the basement rocks consist of Plagioclase-bearing paragneisses.
It covers an area of approximately 270 km ², being composed of crystalline basement rocks and sediments.
In total, about 1.4 km of sediment was deposited over the basement rocks in this period.

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