Sentence examples for older layer of from inspiring English sources

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin unexpectedly fired his longtime chief of staff on Friday, the latest in a series of high-profile Kremlin changes that have ushered out an older layer of Putin peers and replaced them with a younger generation of unquestioning loyalists.

It seemed logical that they were representatives of an older layer of population settlement, but just how far back their roots went has been a topic of debate.

Eve was discovered in 2014 in a much older layer of the Earth - a swathe of rock from Jurassic times which was once beneath the ocean and is known for containing fossils of marine animals such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs.

There are corners of the mine, meanwhile, where you can see even older layers of history.

A composite sill is composed of more than one rock type positioned between older layers of rock during more than one intrusive episode.

In successively deeper, and older, layers of compressed clay and sand, the rock becomes denser, but then -- nearly 2,000 feet down and a million years back in time -- the rock becomes a soggy sediment that contains up to 65percentt water.

As time has passed, more snow has settled on to Antarctica, trapping the older layers of ice and, hence, environmental information such as the Earth's climate or its atmospheric conditions.

Marbles often occur interbedded with such metamorphic rocks as mica schists, phyllites, gneisses, and granulites and are most common in the older layers of Earth's crust that have been deeply buried in regions of extreme folding and igneous intrusion.

It remains in some old pipes and in older layers of household paint.

In recent years, researchers used Opportunity to examine a series of large craters in order to get a look at older layers of Mars' history.

As the well melts through progressively older layers of ice, Taylor says, the team might see changes in the flux of dust during earlier centuries.