Sentence examples for example a stratum of from inspiring English sources

No direct relationship exists between the thickness and extent of strata and the rate of deposition or the time represented; for example, a stratum of limestone 2.5 cm (1 inch) thick may take longer to form than a stratum of sandstone 3 m (10 feet) in thickness.

Tarantino compresses it all into a stratum of pulp.

When we pause for coffee, our seat is a stratum of fossilized tree roots.

"Methane built up in a stratum of sand..

We encountered a stratum of mollusks at 68 feet in one drill site.

A stratum of permeable rock that bears water.

Each venue represented a stratum of MSM to be surveyed.

The drought is only the newest, most visible layer in a strata of disparities.

For example, at the strata of lexicogrammar, the linguist is interested in viewing language as a system of wording and as such, the categories which are relevant at this stratum are those relating to the grammatical properties of language.

Smokestack industries did disappear; jobs came to be divided between a lower stratum of service workers and an upper stratum sitting in antiseptic bubbles playing with computers.

For example, stratum corneum of frog epidermis is by 10 times thinner than that of pig [64].