EGAVE

hardground

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A lithified seafloor.
    Ancient hardgrounds are found in limestone sequences and distinguished from later-lithified sediments by evidence of exposure to normal marine waters.
  2. noun A hard stratum of rock other than coal.

Similar words

hardrock baserock basement bedrock floor hardpan lithogenesis host rock terrain geomaterial

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