Sentence examples for Successive strata from inspiring English sources

Successive strata are exposed to further weathering.

Its complicated stratigraphy signifies the long history of human habitation through the deposition of successive strata of occupation detritus.

Sequences of successive strata and their corresponding enclosed faunas have been matched together to form a composite section detailing the history of the Earth, especially from the inception of the Cambrian Period, which began about 540 million years ago.

Since then, we have unearthed a fossil record in the successive strata of the continents so detailed that we have been able to outline a brief history of life, record thousands of animal entrances and exits, and build up pictures of whole communities of creatures that came, left their mark and then departed, sometimes very suddenly.

In a design statement, the architects of Herzog & de Meuron, the firm behind the renovation of the Board of Officers Room, use the verb "de-layer" frequently to describe the delicate process of stripping down successive strata of paint and plaster in a way that pays respect to both the original design and the passing of time.

This period of approximately twenty years involved Darwin in a series of reflections that form successive strata in the final version of his theory of the evolution of species.

Series of plant and animal fossils in successive geological strata were represented as trees in a popular textbook from 1840, while in 1858 Bronn presented a system of animals, as evidenced by the fossil record, in a form of a tree.

Each successive group of strata thus may be characterized by distinctive conodont assemblages or faunas.

More specifically, the patterns may have evolved in response to differences in the prevailing mode of Y chromosome degeneration in each stratum: 1) A successive gene-by-gene degeneration in stratum I, that may allow for a likewise successive gene-by-gene mechanism of dosage compensation, and 2) a deletion of large segments in the wake of chromosome inversions in stratum II (Ross and Peichel 2008).

Tape strips were used to quantify the mass of naphthalene in successive layers of the stratum corneum.

Each successive glaciation represented in these strata has been identified and named, though the same glacial episode usually bears a different name in North America than in Europe.