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 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

Rapidly dropping we come to a peculiar mass of stratified rock, acutely tilted, unlike any found elsewhere in the region except on Five Lake Creek on the way to Hell Hole.

From The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter by James, George Wharton

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