Sentence examples for stone strata from inspiring English sources

"As the light source shifts, the form's structure and visual output are altered," creating something like a disco ball by-way-of stalactites, a dazzling visual metaphor for the stone strata atop which the city sits.

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.

Rock strata in our section pretty well settled.

Seeing the deep excavations dug for canal building, Smith began to identify and label many separate strata of stone, approximating their chronology with the help of the fossils they contained.

However, the risks of all three adverse outcomes in those with at least one episode of stones were significantly higher than in those without stones in both sexes and age strata.

Interestingly, the specimen derives from strata that also preserve stone tools and animal bones with cut marks (de Heinzelin et al. 1999), but there is no way of firmly associating these finds with A. garhi.

The word street originates with the Latin strata (initially, "paved") and later strata via ("a way paved with stones").

Although the magnitude of the association between stones and adverse outcomes was greater for women than for men and for those aged <50 years than for those aged ≥50, the risk of all three outcomes in those with at least one episode of stones was significantly higher than in those without stones in both sexes and both age strata (table 3).

Our destination was the Stratford Hall cliffs, tawny and fragile, a geological wonder: fluted stone curtains striped with deposits of sedimentary strata that form the remaining bed of an ancient sea.

"Strata which contain fossil remains, manmade stone artifacts, and a lot of organic material were all destroyed," she claims.

The book's leitmotif of geology typically oscillates between serious descriptions of formations such as Whin Sill to the fate of countless Mars bars (his wife's contribution), turned into a "dense paving stone of chocolate and glucose somewhere between the layer of underpants and the rainwear stratum".