The creatures probably grazed on the decaying base of a thin mat of microbial life on the sea floor, says Pflüger, because the burrows follow the base of a thin veneer of darker sandstone that may be the remains of the mat.
Weathered rock (light brown), an often thick layer of fractured rock underlying the thin veneer of soil (dark brown) and just above the impermeable bedrock (gray), can hold more water than soil and plays a major role in determining runoff, landslides and the evolution of mountainous or hilly terrain.
When Mr. Morton reached adulthood, he sold unorthodox beliefs from behind a suburban-dad veneer: a flop of dark hair, a round, clean-shaven face, and a button-down-and-khakis wardrobe.
The mineral was located in the dark veneer of rocks on the rim of a crater named Endeavour.
In the late nineteen-nineties and early two-thousands, Ana Gasteyer played Martha Stewart on "Saturday Night Live" as a woman whose veneer of tasteful, restrained contentedness hid a dark inner life of resentment, sexual longing, and loneliness.
Veneer: dark Stain Burr Walnut and dark aluminium.
Disgraced hopes to be a provocative drama, the sort of entertainment that pushes a few buttons while portraying characters who have a veneer of civility but underneath embody our darkest urges.
But as Gabríela starts to dig beneath the veneer of polite metropolitan society, she becomes convinced dark forces are at work, conspiring to cover up a murder.
From a distance, it could be mistaken for a piece of sturdy Shaker craftsmanship; up close, you can see that it's made of wood veneer accented with dark brown acrylic paint.
By etching paths in the planet's veneer of fine dust, the devils usually expose darker material beneath.
