The underlying geology is mostly sandstone and shale, including " redbed " shale that presents a severe slip hazard when structures are built over it on hillsides.

The recent University Courtyard Apartments is also built on similar underlying geology across a small valley, but the hilltop was extensively removed in order to create a stable base.

The network of rivers thus formed is a drainage system and is often dendritic ( tree-like ), but may adopt other patterns depending on the regional topography and underlying geology.

After running dye tests in the bore hole, they concluded that the flooding was caused by a natural interaction between the island's freshwater lens and tidal pressures in the underlying geology, refuting the idea of artificially constructed flood tunnels.

The underlying geology consists of rocks rich in quartz, feldspar, and mica.

In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet or natural satellite, which is chemically distinct from the underlying mantle.

The underlying geology consists of Lias clays at the western end of the catchment, with Lincolnshire limestone in the centre, including the valleys of the Glen.

The historic core of the town lies on gravel beds at an altitude of roughly 70 metres ( 230 ft ) ASL on an underlying geology of Gault Clay and Upper Greensand and the southern part of the town rises to more than 100 metres ( 328 ft ) on the Lower Greensand.

The underlying geology is of carboniferous limestone.

The underlying geology of the Santa Cruz Mountains was also formed by the sediment of the ancient seas, where marine shale points to Miocene origin.

All three regions have distinct bedrock geology, and the underlying rocks get progressively younger to the south.

The slopes are a classic example of limestone grassland reflecting the underlying geology of the area.

The river bed varies in composition reflecting the underlying geology.

Image: StaffsWorcs Sandstone banks. jpg | Steep cuttings in sandstone, north of Stourton, which make room for the canal alongside the river, illustrate the underlying geology of much of the river's course.

To the west of the region through which the river flows, the underlying geology is an extensive water-bearing porous rock structure called the Magnesian Limestone aquifer.

The underlying geology is Rousay type Middle Old Red Sandstone, the flagstones of which make excellent building materials.

The underlying geology of the islands is Dalradian slate, which was quarried widely until the mid-twentieth century.

The underlying geology of the mountain is granite, covered with blanket bog, which is a habitat for heather, purple moor grass and Sphagnum moss.

The underlying geology is the middle coal measures, which run north – south under Tameside.

The striking appearance of Ingleborough from all directions and from a great distance is due to the unusual geology of the underlying rock.

As a result of its underlying geology, the peninsula is prone to frequent earthquake swarms and tsunamis, and it abounds in hot springs.

Since the buried archaeological record is essentially a volume of earth trapped between the two archaeological horizons defined by the underlying natural geology and the horizon of modern intrusions projecting down into the record, the detailed mapping of the underlying geology of an area has become important in deposit modeling and has resulted in a growth of work for geoarchaeologists.

A variant on spread footings is to have the entire structure bear on a single slab of concrete underlying the entire area of the structure.

The International Seabed Authority ( ISA ) (, ) is an intergovernmental body based in Kingston, Jamaica, that was established to organize and control all mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, an area underlying most of the world ’ s oceans.

However, the key deficits of receptive aphasia do not come from damage to Wernicke's area ; instead, most of the core difficulties are proposed to come from damage to the medial temporal lobe and underlying white matter.

There is much variation in severity between patients, with some having scleroderma of only a limited area of the skin ( such as the fingers ) and little involvement of the underlying tissue ; while others have progressive skin involvement.

Movement against barbed wire can result in moderate to severe injuries to the skin and, depending on body area and barbed wire configuration, possibly to the underlying tissue.

The current nave of the church is partially built over the old 11th century church, of which only a dome and the underlying structure remain, in today's altar area.

Related terms include aquitard, which is a bed of low permeability along an aquifer, and aquiclude ( or aquifuge ), which is a solid, impermeable area underlying or overlying an aquifer.

Influential in this area is Susan Gelman, who has outlined many domains in which children and adults construe classes of entities, particularly biological entities, in essentialist terms — i. e., as if they had unobservable underlying essences which can be used to predict unobservable surface characteristics ( Toosi & Ambady, 2011 ).

The work function difference between metal and silicon in a MOS capacitor is related to the flat-band voltage ( i. e. the voltage that induces zero net charge in the underlying semiconductor ) and the equivalent oxide charge per unit area at the oxide-silicon interface by

Erosion can remove part of the overlying block, creating a fenster ( or window ) when the underlying block is only exposed in a relatively small area.

The general principle underlying all the devices is that a microwave antenna that resides in a urethral catheter is placed in the intraprostatic area of the urethra.

Soils underlying the Pāhoa area are volcanic in origin, deriving from the still active Kilauea Volcano.

A large coal seam underlying the village and surrounding area was mined starting in 1894, resulting in growth of Buxton.

The area is also rich with coalbed methane, which is currently being developed from the several underlying coal seams as an alternative fuel source.

The spring aquifer held a large quantity of water due to the great number of fractures, solution channels, and interstices in the rocks and underlying sands, although the aeral extent of the Big Spring sink is estimated to be only in diameter, with the main area only wide and almost circular, with some ellipticity trending towards the west.

Self-help writers have been described as working " in the area of the ideological, the imagined, the narrativized .... although a veneer of scientism permeates the work, there is also an underlying armature of moralizing.

There are over 100 student-led organizations at John Carroll, many of which have the underlying goal of providing service to the community-be it the community of the local Cleveland area or the global community at large.

Note that the area being filled is a single, well-defined " cell " and that a rubberized landfill liner is in place ( exposed on the left ) to prevent contamination by leachates migrating downward through the underlying geological formation.

Theme camps -- Groups of participants who build a structure or area for public entertainment with an underlying theme.

As a result, many people from outside the area now take pains to pronounce the river and the region as " Whanganui " and the city as " Wanganui ", though the variant spellings do not reflect any difference in the underlying name.

The location is based on unstable terrain owing to the underlying Gault Clay strata, resulting in a succession of huge landslips giving the area a very rugged appearance akin to the better known Jurassic Coast.

In contrast to the Dark Peak, the underlying limestone is not capped by impervious millstone grit, so caves and dry river valleys are common features of the area.

The area is of interest to geologists, since much of the underlying strata have been exposed by extensive quarrying, and can be seen in the old railway cuttings along the Monsal Trail through Monsal Dale and Millers Dale.