Sentence examples for slate layer from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, though, I can't help feeling that this place is less a palimpsest than a brutal, erasable slate: layer upon layer of newness, the past a commodity, disposable and easily forgotten.

His latest piece, the Penn table lamp, left, is a stack of hand-cut black slate layers separated by rubber gaskets.

slate and layered rocks might explode.

slate and layered rocks may explode.

During a recent road trip in upstate New York, he came across a crumbling barn, its whitewash peeling to reveal a layer of slate paint underneath.

Narrow windows are built into the layers of slate to give the impression of rock; strata they depict the different stone layers in sea cliffs.

Many tables have a wooden or particle board layer beneath the slate, allowing staples to be attached.

There I found Mr. Zumthor's most famous building, a spa called Therme Vals (www.therme-vals.ch), which is a series of hot and cold pools in boldly geometric rooms seemingly carved from thick layers of local slate.

A very fine-grained metamorphic rock (usually developed from clay-rich sediments) exhibiting perfect planar layering and perfection of splitting into layers (slaty cleavage) is slate.

From Rogers Pass, layers of quartzite and slate are visible, revealing the fact that the range was part of a large, silty continental shelf 600 million years ago.

PaaS is a blank slate that needs to add the mobile feature layer (whether built in-house or purchased from a vendor) to enable enterprise IT to start building next-gen apps.