Sentence examples for Upon strata from inspiring English sources

Seaside towns are built on strata upon strata of happy memories; a sort of emotional geology.

These rocks sit upon strata forming the broader hill on which the Tor stands; the various layers of the Beacon Limestone Formation and the Dyrham Formation.

"Marseille created itself, strata upon strata, with foreign populations," said the city's longtime mayor, Jean-Claude Gaudin. Jean-Claude Gaudin

Stratum is piled upon stratum.

From a broader social perspective, some negative effects are agreed upon across strata (loss of esteem in the family, worsens oral hygiene, causes poverty, harmful to the unborn child).

These strata deposited in the later stage directly upon the Triassic strata, forming the most important regional unconformity between Triassic and Jurassic.

Only when a person has reached this ground can he achieve the insight that makes his comportment transparent in its entirety and makes him understand how meaning comes about, how meaning is based upon meaning like strata in a process of sedimentation.

The hydration and swelling of clay-rich strata upon contact with water-based drilling fluids and low salinity formation waters presents challenges in drilling and production activities in many unconventional oil and gas fields, including shale-gas and coal seam gas (CSG) fields.

Layer upon layer of the planet's crust is revealed, stratum by stratum: the Toroweap limestone, the Coconino sandstone, the Redwall limestone, the Tonto Group; the Vishnu schist deep down, close to two billion years old, nearly half the total age of the planet — the stuff that is under our very feet as we go about our lives is laid bare here.

In the type of DSS design most commonly used in the BRFSS, telephone numbers are divided into high-density and medium-density strata based upon the proportion of numbers expected to belong to households.

Normally, the type of foundations varies depending upon the availability of soil strata as well as cost involvement.