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
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 Darwin, Charles
The stratified rock lies horizontally just as it was laid down in the bottom of the Devonian Seas millions of years ago.
From My Boyhood by Burroughs, John
A rock usually containing much magnesian earth, for the most part unstratified, but sometimes appearing to be an altered or metamorphic stratified rock.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
