Sentence examples for earth's strata from inspiring English sources
The Syntagma (or Constitution Square) station in the heart of the city has one of the most eye-catching exhibits: a grave still in the earth's strata containing a nearly intact skeleton from the fourth century B.C.
Scientific-sounding names aside, they are less didactic than curiously pretty: pools of swirling, bleeding color are stacked to form what looks like a 3-D version of the earth's strata in a textbook diagram crossed with a crumbling or otherwise askew pastry shop confection.
"Conservators and art historians are interested in learning about the paint layers," Mr. Dik said, "just as geologists are interested in different layers in strata of earth, which tells you about the genesis of the Earth's crust.
The geologic time scale interpreted from rock strata provides a way to organize earth's history.
Because a multimodal function optimization problem makes it mathematically difficult to search large critical slip surface of earth slopes with complex strata, stability analysis is one of the classical problems of geotechnical engineering.
Highlights include Jackie Winsor's "Coil Piece" (1969), a ring of twisted hemp fibers, and Michelle Stuart's "Sayerville Strata Quartet," a series of four monochrome paintings made with different strata of earth from a New Jersey site.
Jones's own predominant interest is in biology, but he doesn't neglect that past lived world impacted or crumbled in the strata of the earth because, as he sees, those lost aeons and once-living forms were essential for Darwin's theories to work.
During tunneling process by earth pressure balance (EPB) shield, the strata containing large amounts of sand and gravel are often encountered.
BP has been pioneering the exploration of the Lower Tertiary or Paleogene area of the Gulf of Mexico, which is deeper than the strata of the earth that provides most of the region's known reserves.
Her pieces feature chambered nautilus fossils embedded in wood and painted with earth pigments to suggest slices of geological strata.
