Topsoil vs Bedrock - What's the difference?
topsoil | bedrock |
The most fertile soil, easiest to start new plants in.
(uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.
A basis or foundation.
* 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html?_r=1&hp]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):
As nouns the difference between topsoil and bedrock
is that topsoil is the most fertile soil, easiest to start new plants in while bedrock is (uncountable|geology|mining|engineering|construction) the solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.topsoil
English
Noun
(en noun)- Little grew on the farm, after the floods from the hurricane washed away the topsoil .
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* *bedrock
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(wikipedia bedrock)Noun
- Many of the bedrock assumptions of American culture — about work, progress, fairness and optimism — are being shaken as successive generations worry about the prospect of declining living standards.