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Sentence Examples It records the streets, the clothes, the decors and the furnishings of all strata of pre-war Paris society in ravishing detail. Leached residual soil and sediment of overlying strata occur within the dissolution pipes and pits. The lower strata abound in delicate, floating creatures, as well as spherical globs. The volcanic strata consist of sheet-like flows of andesite, dacite, basalts, and trachybasalts that are interbedded with agglomerates and tuffs. All four larger Recent families of Stromboidea are represented in Cenozoic strata from Chile. Microseismic monitoring has a role to play because the failure of the rock strata causes microseismic emissions. Look for stone with a good clear strata and pieces that have well-defined tops and sides that will bed together easily. Instead there was a ragbag of patients from all strata of society being wheeled around looking rather forlorn. There are in these strata many faults or irregularities, by which the due range of the strata is thrown out of course. This was back in the days when Genesis were considered to be the last word in cool by a certain strata of English youth. This interpretation is supported by the arrangement of intervening strata into transgressive and regressive cycles. The quarry produces stones of considerable size which are easily detached, the strata being regularly disposed one above the other. Marriage and the nuclear family have become the most common relationships in the middle economic strata. We have non-chain coffee shops and laundromats whose patrons are a fascinating mix of social strata! At the McCoy mine locality, these strata were mapped as an informal unit of calcareous shale and thin-bedded limestone by Dane and Ross. Like fashion and distinct from both fads and crazes, manias tend to develop by spreading downward through the social strata. There is also some debate regarding the benefits of the reforms trickling down to the lowest strata of Indian society. Using a sharp instrument, Verster then draws and scratches patterns and images into this surface, revealing the strata of yellow beneath. Why do we find petrified trees spanning supposedly millions of years of sedimentary strata? From such a viewpoint, it would seem possible to arrange mathematical proofs into strata characterized by their degree of simplicity. Show More Sentences Dissonance emerges through highly structured chord strata and haunting tonalities and atonalities working with and then against one another. Passages tend to run parallel to the strata because there are very few joints and they rarely intersect more than one bed. These are accompanied by much smaller sets of petrographic thin sections from Mesozoic and Cenozoic carbonate strata. Although heavy mineral zonations are well developed in some alluvial strata, other alluvial systems may be more homogeneous. Cool oases carpet the valley after the gentle Touzlimt Pass, and amazing whorls and swirls of strata arc across the eastern mountains. Our response is that the third party followed the orthodox practice, which was dry drilling in coal or soft strata and wet drilling in stone. Symbolic attachment may reinforce localism or take the form of personal commitments that extend across socioeconomic strata. In fact, their disappearance from the rocky strata was so abrupt that it signalled a cataclysm. How did their fossil remains get sorted into an invariable order in the earth's strata? The herbivore samples were obtained from Norse and Iron Age strata at a second coastal, machair site at nearby Bostadh. The upper boundary of the Centroiberica zone is not conformable with younger strata and Silurian and Devonian strata may be absent. Intrusion of diabase at Mt. Butters has resulted in low-grade contact metamorphism of the pre-existing sedimentary strata. Chert fragments are likely to be polycyclic but originally derived from obducted deep-sea strata. The strata titles create the private undivided ownership of a unit in the project with the share of ownership of the land and public space. Attracting the most spirited bidding at the auction were five smaller strata title retail units. One of the biggest concerns people had had about strata titles was that in many cases they did not individually own the building they occupied. They now have a controlling interest in the property, amalgamating various strata titles and also owning some suites. Made of solid brick, this strata title unit offers parking for one car and is close to schools, parks and transport. Several free seminars on strata title were currently being held in Perth and major country centres. Extensional faults are planed by a regional unconformity that is overstepped by Permian to Cretaceous strata. Show More Sentences His carved plywood canvasses are acutely reminiscent of fossil imprints layered in geological strata. Carboniferous to Cretaceous strata are exposed in an extensive series of outcrops along the east coast of Greenland. Because of this, it has often been difficult to correlate rock strata with layers from other localities. Additional control on the subsurface continuity of the strata is provided by seismic data. By the 1950s confusion had arisen over the use of geological terms referring to strata and to time. All the wells penetrate Mesozoic strata, and 40 wells penetrate Palaeozoic strata. The sequence ends with Upper Carboniferous continental-facies molasse deposits, including redbeds and coal-bearing strata. Overlying the Jurassic succession, a thin sequence of basal Cretaceous strata including the Greensand is characterized by radial outward dips. The syn-rift succession overlies Eocene to Oligocene pre-rift strata with an angular unconformity. If a single mammalian fossil were found in situ in precambrian rock strata, evolution would be falsified. Carboniferous and Permian strata often contain useful index fossils belonging to this group. Inliers of Avalonian strata crop out in the west of the English Midlands in Shropshire. Nineteenth-century geologists, basing their estimate on sedimentary rock strata, gauged Earth's age to be hundreds of millions of years. George believed that the Grand Canyon had a soul, that it wasn't merely rocks, strata, and accumulated layers of lava and sediments. Nestling into exposed rock, the house appears deeply rooted in the ground itself, emerging as an extension of the geological strata beneath it. In this paper, we describe the use of spectral gamma-ray logs in testing and refining high-resolution stratigraphy in fluvial strata. The layeredness that Smithson found within the various strata of the jetty, Shaw finds in, and grafts into, the process of textual production. Their proposal consists of vertical structures organized into horizontal strata, including cultural space and green space. Their experiences and rhetoric are often hard to disentangle in the autobiographical strata of the novel. This scale is suited to identification of strata even within relatively homogeneous lower-SES populations. Show More Sentences However, the three strata should be considered as three separate trials of similar design. Hence the use of collage, the endlessly repainted surfaces, the emphasis on ghostly traces within the underlying strata of the painting. A dialogue between various strata, castes and tribes within the Dalit community has been initiated. Where the middling strata were thin on the ground, as in Spain or Hungary, liberalism could take on a strong aristocratic tinge. There may also be much variation in sexual behavior and meanings within similar socioeconomic strata. The approaches of different countries, social strata and classes differ as well. Women generally have a high status in the working class, but not in other social strata. Critics, all from the upper-middle classes, associated street clamor with the lower social strata. Women, of all ages, education, and social strata love the gossip magazines! Secondly, we needed strata within which participants had roughly identical rates of disease progression. Sampling fractions for different strata were used to compute the number of subjects in each subgroup. The overall household rate was increased by sampling disproportionately from the strata with larger proportions of households. Sequence IV includes strata from the base of the bauxitic claystone below Seam 2 of the Heshan Formation to the top of the Dalong Formation. Conversely, in an extensional basin, older strata would be expected to develop higher grades beneath an overburden of younger rocks. Wetland creation attempts are often initiated by the removal of upland surface soil materials exposing mineral subsoil strata. In the middle of the strata are former Bedouins, Arabian Desert nomads, who settled in Kuwait with the advent of the oil industry. In more humid areas, an exuberant mesophyllous mountain forest with several strata and abundant climbers and epiphytes. The date assigned to the strata was, of course, Mesozoic, namely Cretaceous. Home shopping is day by day becoming very popular with the upper and a significant section of middle strata of the society. Four new molluscan species, a bivalve and three gastropods, are named from shallow-marine, lower Upper Cretaceous strata in Oregon. Show More Sentences Our data show, in contrast, that these siliciclastic strata were deposited in two chronologically distinct basins. In this transect, the contact between the Carboniferous strata and the volcanic sequence appears to be an unconformable sedimentary contact. Within the flat, perfectly even strata, the drawn lines appear blurrier the deeper they lie. They represent interdependent components of the class policy elaborated by the dominant strata of the ruling elite. This is due to poor exposure, shallow dip of the strata, and relatively few stratigraphic wells. The spherules in South Greenland are the first distal impact ejecta recognized in mid-Precambrian strata. This occurred prior to a major pre-Pennsylvanian erosional interval that removed Silurian sedimentary strata from the region. A geologic time scale combines absolute age determinations, in years, with relative age based on sequences of rock strata. The distinguishing feature of the lowermost sequence is the presence of coal or carbonaceous shale within alluvial and lacustrine strata. The question of insurance arrangements for strata title properties had been raised frequently. Mothers were then randomised to the intervention or control group within two strata. You plunge into a winding cleft whose strata swirl across cliffs like a serrated knife through butter. All these strata tend to be endogamous or, in the south, observe the marital rule of hypergamy. To make progress in their struggle for equality, they needed to wrest power from their own dominant strata. The chemical components used to artificially petrify wood can be found in natural settings around volcanoes and within sedimentary strata. The carved chests and the intarsia tables could not be found in the miserable huts of the poorer strata. He suggested that the median geanticlines were absent, and that the geosynclines were actually wedge-shaped accumulations of strata. The last contain residual soil, and are then filled with marine sediment of the overlying strata. Silurian strata have provided likely ascomycete fossils, as well as remains of the first arachnids and centipedes. They were only cobbles and small, irregular outcrops, not large ledges of obviously layered strata. Show More Sentences The underlying political ferment among many social strata is revealed by a growing number of smaller protests and meetings. Fossils in these strata might have implied a long succession of life forms antecedent to man. It is unsettling to discover a layer of fragile, unsound rock concealed between deep strata of solid granite, but not uncommon. This fact is applicable to all strata of society, but is more visible in the lower sections. People, irrespective of the economic strata to which they belong, have become quality conscious. And all the while, as you're occupied with these little conceits, the film's geologic strata are shifting into place. A country's most productive force is its diverse strata of human resources. They had things in common with us nerds, and by graduating year the social strata were almost gone. Seismic data used in this study indicate that the Lower Flora Sandstone is conformable with the underlying strata. Foreigners may have freehold ownership of a condominium title, with a proportional or strata interest in common land. Ladinian strata of the Balaton Highland comprise interbedded marine carbonate and volcaniclastic rocks. This difference in initial age strata was necessary because most 19 year old males in Sweden fulfill a year of compulsory military service. Plenty of suitable sedimentary deposits exist within the late Precambrian and Cambrian strata. Because the survey used a complex stratified design with differences in sampling fractions among strata, the unweighted sample is not representative of the target population. In the Cheshire Formation of the Belingwe greenstone belt, tectonic ironstones formed along shear zones that now separate tectonically duplicated strata. The Bishri area was part of the Palmyride aulacogen from Late Palaeozoic until Paleogene time, accumulating thousands of metres of clastic and carbonate strata. With the hike in fees structure of self-financing colleges, the students belonging to lower economic strata will be denied their fundamental right of education. Ordovician strata are characterized by numerous and diverse trilobites and conodonts found in sequences of shale, limestone, dolostone, and sandstone. Whatever the short-term outcome of these manoeuvres, the splits and divisions within Fiji's ruling strata will only fester and lead to further political instability. The deposition of Palaeogene siliciclastic shelf strata in the Wessex Basin cannot be interpreted exclusively in terms of fluctuations in relative sea level. Show More Sentences Since ancient times, very substantial strata of Latin and of Slavic and Turkish have been added to Albanian, making the older strata more difficult to analyze. The dog says that there are no surfaces, just occasional strata of unusual density, and that there can't be abstaction because deep isomorphism is always required. Lothagam is a more restricted area and its strata are older-late Miocene to early Pliocene, overlain unconformably by Quaternary sands, gravels, and coquinas. If anything, there was the feeling that there was something almost sacerdotal going on in the upper strata of the literary, and this could only be to the good. He felt the familiar faint jarring of a strata overlay and immediately the Matriarch stood facing him in the sunlight that shone through the trelliswork above. To assign the interbedded sedimentary strata to the correct system it is, however, necessary to incorporate biostratigraphic and petrographic data. He believed in a recent, six 24-hour-day creation and a global catastrophic Noachian Deluge, which by its nature would have produced most of the strata of the earth's crust. Metaphorically, the mass is supposed to have been eroded by time and weather, so revealing its strata, and allowing openings to be created for access and light. Canadians in all strata of society became greatly disturbed by this threat and looked for ways to draw the northwestern regions of North America into confederation. Exploration for hydrocarbons has resulted in drilling to basement in many basins and, where coal seams occur close to the surface, opencast mining has exposed the strata. The lower part of the section consists of natural outcrops at the hillside, whereas the higher, more fossiliferous strata are exposed by artificial trenches. Lower Cambrian and subordinate Precambrian strata are mainly metamorphic marine clastic deposits and underlie parts of the western section of the county. Salinity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen strata were measured in each basin of each lake, again to compare abiotic limnology across lakes and over time at Ogac Lake. A major extensional event of Permian age post-dates all of these strata. Although rhynchosaurs are not usually abundant in these strata, their presence refutes Romer's assertion that rhynchosaurs indicate a Middle Triassic age. Biarmosuchians are a group of small-to-medium sized carnivorous therapsids known exclusively from Middle to Upper Permian strata in South Africa and Russia. As these groups arrived and settled amongst different regions and in different social strata, those with European origins quickly ascended on the social scale. If canopy birds have a greater need to shift downwards than understory birds, the strata of canopy birds should be wider than those of understory birds. There is no question that the working class must strive to win the support of other classes and intermediate social strata in the struggle against global capitalism. The corruption and get-rich-quick mentality on Wall Street found its direct reflection within the privileged strata that make up the union bureaucracy. Show More Sentences Such sites are found in numerous strata of different ages throughout the triassic, jurassic and cretaceous, all of which were allegedly laid down during the flood. Sedgwick began fieldwork at Barmouth in north Wales in 1831 where he established the order of local rocks and gave the name Cambrian to the oldest fossiliferous strata. The confidence on fossils to determine the relative age of strata was so strong that the necessity to confirm their relative age based on the law of superposition was thought unnecessary. At higher levels this includes attracting foreign investment while at the very basic it means increasing Internet connectivity and usage in rural and urban strata. The sample was chosen from randomly selected public school districts and individual private schools within geographic strata throughout the state. He identifies different ideological strata, the lowest of which are made up of vague experiences, idle thoughts and random words which flash across the mind. Developmental work in the seam below is not likely to disturb the continuity of the strata between the seams, but detreat mining is likely to cause fractures in the strata. Fluids escaping along the bounding faults at shallow levels fluidized uncemented Oxfordian sands, which were subsequently injected into the overlying Kimmeridgian strata. Beneath a thin veneer of Pleistocene sediments, it encountered a thick sequence of Cenozoic and Jurassic strata separated by major unconformities. Occasionally, badger bones may be discovered in strata from much earlier dates, due to the burrowing habits of the animal. The geologic time scale was developed based on the relative ages of rock strata as determined by the early paleontologists and stratigraphers. In Great Britain, greensand usually refers to specific rock strata of Early Cretaceous age. Where the land rises to the sea there are several parallel strata of Jurassic rocks, including Portland limestone and the Purbeck beds. Due to geological folding of the Alpine orogeny, the strata in the main section of the Bay are vertical, with younger rocks to the north. The Government is today releasing a report by the Australian Government Actuary into strata title insurance prices in North Queensland. However, the extent to which Sverre's men actually represented the impoverished strata of the population remains disputed. Each block has rotated along the curved plane of a listric normal fault, so that the dip of the displaced strata is away from the valley axis. Rates of participation and the value of holdings differs significantly across strata of income. These thin strata, close to the surface, were extracted through open cut workings, which were then smelted by the monks. The root systems of established bracken stands degrade archaeological sites by disrupting the strata and other physical evidence. Show More Sentences Lying on the edge of the Scafell Syncline, the various strata dip to the east. This results in a long and gentle backslope called a dip slope that conforms with the dip of resistant strata, called caprock. The frontslope of the cuesta consists of an escarpment that cuts across the bedding of the strata comprising it. In Chongqing, strata including incompact soil, sandstone, and mudstone are widespread. It is a texturally immature sedimentary rock generally found in Paleozoic strata. These were largely concordant with the strata of the existing country rock. The most significant easterly fault described by Edward Hull throws the strata down to the east. Along the valley sides can be seen the typical Dales geology of Yoredale beds, alternating strata of Limestone and Gritstone. Around 295 million years ago upwelling magma spread through fissures and between strata in the earlier Carboniferous Limestone country rock. Common in some Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata, black shales were deposited in anoxic, reducing environments, such as in stagnant water columns. The Ludlovian strata of Gotland are subdivided into six stratigraphical units. It is the relative ages of the rock strata that distinguish anticlines from antiforms. A monocline is a bend in the strata resulting in a local steepening in only one direction of dip. Therefore, if age relationships between various rock strata are unknown, the term antiform should be used. I suspect there is a hidden strata of young architectural talent which dismisses the RSA as a remote and fusty collection of old buffties. Subequatorial saurichthyids have also been described in Early Triassic strata. The strata have been so heavily folded during the Alpine Orogeny that the chalk is near vertical. The younger rock strata in the southwest of Iceland and the central highlands are only about 700 thousand years old. In 1959, when the Hutus overthrew the Tutsi monarchy, the power strata started changing. These earliest Jurassic subzones and other psilocerataceans have not been detected in the Lavernock Point sequence of strata. Show More Sentences In certain regions of horizontal platform strata, there occur sharp downflexings of strata in the form of monoclines. Contained gases could not escape through the thick strata, thus form cavities, which can often be observed. In sandy strata, 7 to 9 inches diameter holes are drilled with a percussion type drill rig. Motion along the fault including both shortening and extension of tectonic plates, usually also deforms strata near the fault. The significance of trace fossils in sedimentology, stratigraphy and palaeoecology with examples from Lower Palaeozoic strata. Retreats of araneids in higher strata do not play a significant role for hibernation of arthropods other than spiders. Thus, the ichnological character of the Bloomsburg Red Beds suggests a brackish water origin for the trackway-bearing strata. Typically this will involve a cover of sandstone overlying limestone strata undergoing solution. These agreements also includes one of the largest strata managers on the Wester Cape, TopNotch Property Services. This phase of deformation tilted the chalk strata to the southeast in the area of the Chiltern Hills. Petroleum is found in porous rock formations in the upper strata of some areas of the Earth's crust. Rented shopping centers will continue to dominate supplies in the future as strata title shopping centers have shown no significant expansion. Certain rock strata contain hydrocarbons but have low permeability and are not thick from a vertical perspective. Horizontal drilling, extending horizontally through the strata, permits the well to access a much greater volume of the strata. In preparation, he joined Adam Sedgwick's geology course, then travelled with him in the summer for a fortnight, in order to map strata in Wales. The site can be best viewed from the sea, when the dipping nature of the rock strata becomes apparent. In larger towns, especially Nuuk and in the higher social strata, this is still a large group. The more the underlying fault is tectonically uplifted, the more the strata will be deformed and must adapt to new shapes. Water, minerals and specific rock strata such as limestone found inside anticlines are also extracted and commercialized. Although of significantly less economic importance, strata deposited along the shore of paleolakes sometimes contain coal seams. Show More Sentences Chronostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy that places an absolute age, rather than a relative age on rock strata. A gap or missing strata in the geological record of an area is called a stratigraphic hiatus. If the data indicate that the North Magnetic Pole were near the South Rotational Pole, the strata would exhibit reversed polarity. The bedrock, which is also known as the Chester Pebble Beds, is noticeable because of the many small stones trapped within its strata. The structure and detail of the concourse galleries echo the form of the exterior, with the curving strata formed in native hardwoods. The strata of the slate frontage of the Wales Millennium Centre reminded me of the horizons just beyond Penarth Head. A buttress unconformity occurs when younger bedding is deposited against older strata thus influencing its bedding structure. The Westphalian is named for the region of Westphalia in western Germany where strata of this age occur. The Jurassic is named after the Jura Mountains within the European Alps, where limestone strata from the period were first identified. Middle Jurassic strata are neither well represented nor well studied in Africa. Late Jurassic strata are also poorly represented apart from the spectacular Tendaguru fauna in Tanzania. Thermally generated methane, is referred to as thermogenic, originating from deeper sedimentary strata. Lias Group strata form imposing cliffs on the Vale of Glamorgan coast, in southern Wales. The supracrustal strata of NKGBS consist of metabasalts, metakomatiites and felsic to intermediate metavolcanics. Laskarev's definition included only fossils and sedimentary strata from the sea of the Neogene system. The rock strata slopes slightly upwards to the south, giving the highest cliffs on the south and some beaches to the north. As is the case with all anticlines, older rock strata are found in the core of the structure. The spaces that are most open are the low grounds to northeast and southwest, where it is practically impossible to get below the Roman strata. In many places weathering of these strata has resulted in the formation of immature calcareous soils. Furthermore, it was supposed that a static shell of strata was present under the continents. Show More Sentences Sedimentary rocks are deposited in layers as strata, forming a structure called bedding. When sedimentary strata accumulate through time, the environment can shift, forming a change in facies in the subsurface at one location. This evangelical movement was led by lay preachers who themselves came from the lower strata, and whose preaching was implicitly critical of the established order. Authigenic silicate minerals, where present in lower strata, are invariably represented by glauconite with shifts to chamosite only in intervals where the rock is lutitic. And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata! As in Arab waters, where salt has punched to the surface, the diapirs produce small islands and the salt pillars have caused minimal disturbance to the over-lying strata. Based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata, he proposed the Cambrian period in 1835, in a joint publication in which Roderick Murchison also proposed the Silurian period. He founded the system for the classification of Cambrian rocks and with Roderick Murchison worked out the order of the Carboniferous and underlying Devonian strata. Stratovolcanoes or composite volcanoes are tall conical mountains composed of lava flows and other ejecta in alternate layers, the strata that gives rise to the name. The uplifted core of the fold causes compression of strata that preferentially erodes to a deeper stratigraphic level relative to the topographically lower flanks. Due to geological folding of the Alpine orogeny, the strata in the main section of the bay are near vertical, with younger rocks with progressively lower dips to the west. Banded iron formations are unique, water-laid deposits often found in extremely old rock strata that formed before the atmosphere or oceans contained abundant oxygen. The progressing age of the rock strata towards the core and uplifted center, are the trademark indications for evidence of anticlines on a geologic map. Seismic profiles clearly image these strata continuing beneath a basal Permian unconformity into at least the western part of the Caernarfon Bay Basin. If water and oil are mixed together, they tend to separate, and at equilibrium they are in different strata with an oil-water interface in between. Successful tunnelling required a sound understanding of the topography and geology and the selection of the best rock strata through which to dig. He subdivided the Tertiary Period into four epochs according to the percentage of fossil mollusks resembling modern species found in those strata. These differences depend upon whether the dip of the strata from which they have been eroded are either nearly vertical, moderately dipping, or gently dipping. Much of the market has been geared toward strata title ownership, but as the market gets more competitive, there will be less ownership and more interest in leasing. The strata are relatively flat lying, but have been folded in to a series of broad-open east-west orientated anticlines and synclines then block faulted. Show More Sentences Ancestral horseshoe crabs, often found associated with eurypterids in Silurian and Devonian strata, are sporadically represented in the geologic column. These are in this case Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous strata. Because of the gently dipping nature of the strata that forms a cuesta, a significant shift in horizontal location will take place as the landscape is lowered by erosion. Open cast coal mining recovers a greater proportion of the coal deposit than underground methods, as more of the coal seams in the strata may be exploited. Judging by current adverts in the GDN, off-plan apartment sales without strata title are apparently still being condoned in 2014 by the powers that be. Sedimentary rocks form under the influence of gravity and typically are deposited in horizontal or near horizontal layers or strata and may be referred to as stratified rocks. The surrounding strata, if shale or mudstone, often contain slightly more than average and this may also be reflected in the ash content of 'dirty' coals. Sedimentary strata from the Paratethys are difficult to correlate with those from other oceans or seas because at times it was totally separated from them. Martinez characterizes Guatemalan colonial society as a pyramid of human strata with Spaniards and criollos on top, ladinos in the middle, and indios at the bottom. The area is often considered to be the most southerly peak of the Pennines, certainly the southernmost point of that range's carboniferous limestone rock strata. If all strata are identical populations, conventional control charts would act as if the stratified sample was a random sample from that common population. Geologists study rock strata and categorize them by the material of beds. He has held a life membership among the wearers of decorated sleeves, though he has shifted around considerably among the various strata of makedom. The chalk strata are frequently interspersed with layers of flint nodules which apparently replaced chalk and infilled pore spaces early in the diagenetic history. The area around Lulworth Cove contains a fossil forest, and 71 different rock strata have been identified at Lyme Regis, each with its own species of ammonite. The coal bearing rock strata or coal measures that make up the coalfield outcrop in the foothills of the Pennines and dip gently downwards from west to east. Sedimentary rocks are laid down in layers called beds or strata. The pressure difference forces groundwater to flow continuously into the gasifier and no chemical from the gasifier can escape into the surrounding strata. As the walls of the chines and cliffs are so unstable and erode continually, particularly those of the south coast of the Isle of Wight, the strata are clearly visible. Fossil evidence of pelicans dates back to at least 30 million years to the remains of a beak very similar to that of modern species recovered from Oligocene strata in France. Show More Sentences The precise delimitation of the taxon range is, however, not possible, because the material is scarce and the successions with conodont-bearing strata are thin. There are also strata of shale and gritstone that surface on the fell. The strata thus formed are called turbidites, and these are common in central Wales, being particularly obvious in the sea cliffs around Aberystwyth. Fracturing rocks at great depth frequently becomes suppressed by pressure due to the weight of the overlying rock strata and the cementation of the formation. The Hebrides have a diverse geology ranging in age from Precambrian strata that are amongst the oldest rocks in Europe to Paleogene igneous intrusions. Late Neogene clay and gravel, which are only a few tens of meters thick, rest upon the eroded surface of the folded and faulted strata that comprise Wrangel Island. Permian and Triassic strata overlie these older rocks in the east. Examples from Classical Literature From Prototheria to something like the Theromorpha at the bottom of the Triassic strata. Fig. 45 represents a crumpled portion of the ice with the lines of lamination passing through the strata. They reached their climax at the moment when the two strata began to melt into one. They never repose on the volcanic or trappean formations, nor on strata containing organic remains. It consisted of a yellow sandstone in thin strata, covered in some parts with beds of waterworn pebbles. Also many large elms grow along the upper slopes, especially along the outcrops of the two main strata of the oread Limestone. Such is the case with a deposit of volcanic ash which has been discovered in the superficial strata on the plains. The Maryland hailstones are unusual, but a dozen strata have often been counted. So numerous are the fossil remains in the lower White River beds that these strata are called the titanothere beds. They had to sink nearly forty feet to get to the gold strata, and part of the sinking was through a toughish kind of rock. The strata immediately where they issue is a fine white and calcareous sandstone, covered with an incrustation of common salt. The dolerite of Fair Head sends off sheets along the bedding-planes of these carboniferous strata. Those of its strata which effervesce with acids partake of the nature of marl. The strata of this system rest upon the Pre-Cambrian, and are succeeded by the Ordovician system. Some of these strata of the secondary, epoch have only had their horizontality disturbed, while others are quite vertical. The strata are bent down towards the central plug of igneous rock, and are generally more or less altered at the line of junction. Juxtapositional, combinatory, and inflectional strata in the formation of the Aryan language, iv. The strata of the past, so visible in other medival cities, are not apparent here. Traces of this metal, chiefly in the boulder form, are found in the metalliferous horizontal strata. The greater the solar activity the more is the chromosphere charged with the vapors of the lower strata of the sun's atmosphere. Show More Sentences Sheets of igneous rock are interbedded with the strata and many dikes of igneous rocks cut through the whole combination. We have strata consolidated with sulphureous and bituminous substances, which do not correspond to the solution of water. The strata of cliffs were broken and disjoined, lying sloping in different directions. In this distance no rock strata appeared, nor any formation other than a jutting ridge of sand, or an alluvial plain. In the grounds of the Admiralty House curious instances of unconformable strata are laid bare in old quarries. The complete biological contrasts between the fossil contents of unconformable strata are sufficiently explicable. A greatly deformed and metamorphosed older series is unconformably overlaid by a great thickness of younger strata. An unconformity thus records movements of the crust and a consequent break in the deposition of the strata. After-images or recrudescent memories coming up from the subconscious strata to which they had fallen. The strata consist of greywackes, flags and shales with seams and zones of graptolite shale which yield fossils sparingly. In sections of river banks one may often see a vertical succession of cross-bedded strata, each built in the way described. Wherever they find calcareous strata to abrade, the water is almost milklike in hue for miles around. A downfold, where the strata dip from either side toward the axis of the trough, is called a syncline. Find more words! 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