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
These linings are well-known peculiarities in the original deposition of a stratified rock, and are not features assumed in the petrifaction of any organic body.
From The American Goliah by Anonymous
On the mountains of stratified rock the facing was made of masonry, and the core of earth and cobble-stones.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various
These older layers of the stratified rock are covered with the deposits of later periods.
From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Rogers, Julia Ellen
