stratum

From May to October, continuing a tradition launched in 2011, visitors can pay extra to dig for their own fossils in more recent, less scientifically significant geographical strata.

The kind you might have first met at a 4th of July picnic in a glass Pyrex dish, where guacamole and sour cream mingled with salsa and shredded cheese in slightly slouchy strata.

I thought I wanted a piece of all that; not so much the affluence, but the ease with which he moved through the world with money and social strata no deterrence.

Each stratum, or layer, of our planet tells a story.

It’s easy to see why Chishiya has such a magnetic appeal at the close of a year when audiences obsessed over stories of con artists infiltrating society’s most exclusive strata.