stratified rock
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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
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
The cycle of erosion now in progress and recorded in the layers of stratified rock being spread beneath the sea in continental deltas has therefore been preceded by many similar cycles.
From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon
The oldest stratified rock of Scotland is the hornblendic gneiss of Lewis, in the Hebrides, and that of the north-west coast of Ross-shire, represented at the base of the section given at Figure 82.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
It appeared to be a stratified rock, with strongly marked oblique strata.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Nansen, Fridtjof
