Literary usage of Bassetting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Delineation of the Strata of Derbyshire: Forming the Surface from Bolsover by White Watson (1811)
"Grindstone-Sandstone) appears again but bassetting to the East* as if desirous
... These Strata* bassetting towards each other, but * " By his Knowledge the ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1814)
"From these and other general observations, Mr. Townsend passes to the .indications of
the bassetting of several of our native strata, ..."
3. The Playbook of Metals: Including Personal Narratives of Visits to Coal by John Henry Pepper (1861)
"I. exhibit the appearance of strata cropping out or bassetting on a hill, and
presenting exactly the converse of the features exhibited by the lower portion ..."
4. Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1848)
"... surface by the " cropping out" or " bassetting" of a number of seams or beds
of coal, whereas in reality there was only a repetition of the same beds. ..."
5. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"Basset, bassetting edge. (Min., Geol.) When a slanting vein or bed shows itself
at the surface, its edge is called the Basset-edge, or outcrop. Bassia. ..."
6. Boston Journal of Natural History by Boston Society of Natural History (1837)
"... between different layers of the slate, without any apparent fracture of the
intervening layers, when they were inspected only on their bassetting edges. ..."
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