Sentence examples for geological strata from inspiring English sources

Natural: Undisturbed geological strata at the bottom of the site.

"The movements are like geological strata," he told me.

The needles were also used in the oil industry to chart geological strata.

Her pieces feature chambered nautilus fossils embedded in wood and painted with earth pigments to suggest slices of geological strata.

But it can also eat through the man-made seals or geological strata intended to keep it in place.

Dent and collapse are the common failure modes of crossing pipelines in bad geological strata.

"Focus on an ordinary thing," instructs the journalist Michael Lewis in his contribution – "the faintly geological strata of the insides of a burrito, for instance".

One installation at the Royal Academy turned a heap of his unfinished paintings into a model of geological strata going back to the early history of earth.

And – thanks to remarkable discoveries preserved in unique geological strata – China long ago became a powerful player in the world of palaeontology.

Piled up, they are like geological strata: urban life as seen through the furniture of sleep, sex and death, an entropic image Robert Smithson would have appreciated.

Investigation of a site for a dam includes sinking trial borings to determine geological strata.