bedrock

Most people will wonder why the building’s foundation didn’t just go to bedrock in the original design.

Just like a cave dissolved into the bedrock can act like a pipe and allow groundwater to carry away soil, an actual pipe can do the same thing.

As the asteroid hits the shallow ocean and the bedrock below the energy of billions of nuclear weapons is released all at once as the asteroid vaporizes.

The answer is the same reason my house doesn’t have piles to bedrock.

For this reason, she calls this book — and other romance novels like it — foundational fictions: stories that present romance across social divides as the bedrock for building a country.