Sentence examples for layer of sedimentary from inspiring English sources

The rocks of the Carolina slate belt, including the Haile gold mine, contain the metal in an unusual form: rather than appearing in veins and nuggets, it is finely disseminated in a layer of sedimentary rock.The sediments that form the Carolina slates were once a seabed through which volcanic fluids flowed.

The Karoo (Karroo) System a thick layer of sedimentary rocks consisting of shale, sandstone, and grit of Permian and Triassic age (about 200 to 300 million years old)—covers the Zambezi valley and the valleys of its tributaries from Hwange (formerly Wankie) southward to Bulawayo and spreads across parts of the southern Lowveld from Tuli, near the southern border, to the Sabi River.

It is the youngest of the many Animikie layers, a layer of sedimentary rocks.

And my books flatten under each others' weight, like layers of sedimentary rock.

For the past two months, the Opportunity has slowly examined layers of sedimentary rocks within a 430-foot-wide crater nicknamed Endurance.

This is indicated by both the geographic distribution and the stratigraphic layering of sedimentary deposits.

Their scars have accumulated like layers of sedimentary rock, each marking a different crisis — homelessness, occupation, war, dependency.

She was a one-fish Hoover, motoring through the food-packed sludge and through rich layers of sedimentary smells.

Aeolis Mons (also called Mount Sharp), the crater's central mountain, consists of many layers of sedimentary rock that were laid down over much of Mars's geological history.

The stronger layers of sedimentary rock are then folded into linear, regularly spaced folds alternating anticlines and synclines and thrust on top of one another.

The West's notion of progress inherently presumes that society is always building upon the past, like layers of sedimentary rock.