stratified rock
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Once probably part of a shallow ocean bottom, the stratified rock has now been thrust to the surface and scientists can easily examine it.
From Time Magazine Archive
But like a stratified rock in Geology I, the school tells more about where the town has been than where it is going.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then again the stratified rock is like a just-lifted lid, from beneath which the water issues.
From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by John Burroughs
The mineral springs of Cauquenes burst forth on a line of dislocation, crossing a mass of stratified rock, the whole of which betrays the action of heat.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
We see another exhibition of the magnitude of the earth's forces in what the geologist calls a "laccolite"—a great cave or cistern deep beneath the surface of stratified rock filled with hardened lava.
From Time and Change by John Burroughs
