Sentence examples for early strata from inspiring English sources

Probably, to begin with, the Muses were one of those vague collections of deities, undifferentiated within the group, which are characteristic of certain, probably early, strata of Greek religion.

From 1930 to 1936 he worked at Jericho and made the first soundings to reach very early strata that antedated the use of pottery.

In this early stratum of his literary activity he was attracting attention as a writer of historical drama (the three Henry VI plays) and tragedy (the blood-soaked Titus Andronicus).

Cuvier did not think that these transitions were the result of divinely mandated catastrophes; and although he did not fully understand the mechanisms behind them, he hypothesized that the animals that succeeded those of earlier strata may have migrated in from elsewhere as the environments changed.

In the earliest strata of texts reliably attributed to Bodhidharma and other early Chan teachers (see Broughton 1999), we find Bodhidharma claiming that there are two points of entry to Buddhism: via li, an "informing impetus" or "principle"; and via xing, "practice".

Already in the earliest strata of the canonical literature we find a tripartite model of cognition in which a clear distinction is made between the phenomenal world, its mode of apprehension, and the specific type of consciousness by which it is apprehended.

Heteronectes is a related, and very similar fossil from slightly earlier strata of France.

If the chordates radiated before the Cambrian as molecular analyses suggest, there are only rather dubious chordate fossils in earlier strata.

More importantly, small number of patients and low event rates in the female stratum, early stage stratum, and RT alone stratum are significant factors that cannot be ignored.

This result could be due to a different diagenetic history in this sample (perhaps the sample was exposed to excessive heat from cooking, for instance), or these barley grains may in fact have originated in an earlier stratum.

In 1864 Lapworth became a schoolmaster at Galashiels and began his studies of the early Paleozoic strata of the Southern Uplands.