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 hills on our left have horizontally stratified rock alternating with snow.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon
These rocks look as if a stratified rock had been nearly melted, and the strata fused together by the heat.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace
