Here, so say the geologists, currents of water running for innumerable years, have worn out channels in the softer parts of a wide stratum of sandstone, and produced the effects we now witness.
The stratum must have been great, for the rocks extend, more or less crowded, away to the Heuscheuer, a distance of three or four leagues.
In the western declivity the ruddy granite is cut in two by a stratum of basalt, which broadens as you descend, its surface cut up by pale gray veins resembling a network.
He made himself at home in each higher stratum of atmosphere.
The point to which he had alluded was an immense overhanging slab of granite stratum deep set in the mountain side.
The surface of the area is an almost unvaried plain, and is based upon the stratum of argillaceous sandstone.
Its soil is evidently the detritus of a stratum of red sandstone and coarse conglomeratic, which is still the basis and prevailing rock.
Following up the bed of the creek, we ascended by a gradual elevation to the surface of the stratum of red sandstone.
Near the summits of some of these bluffs the stratum of rock {84} assumes an appearance of such extraordinary regularity, as to resemble an artificial wall, constructed for the support of the superincumbent soil.
This change is the occurrence of a second variety of sand-rock, appearing along the base of the cliff, and supporting the slaty argillaceous stratum already described.
Their social character has insured their persistence[427]--ceremonies of to-day contain features that go back to the earliest known stratum of organized religious life.
This name does not occur in the Achæmenian inscriptions, but it is mentioned in the Gathas and by Aristotle,[1791] so that it appears to belong to an early stratum of the Iranian religion.
It is found in distinct form, as is pointed out above, only in superior tribes--it has not been discovered in very low communities, and appears not to belong to the earliest stratum of religious beliefs.
This principle affects the consumption of a wide range of articles, the possession of which seems, outwardly at least, to stamp the owners as belonging in a certain stratum of society.
Nitrates and phosphoric acid that lie in the topmost stratum of the soil are among the destructible instruments of agriculture.
Under proper conditions this does not happen; for the drastic action of the Malthusian law does not take place in the case of the third class as a whole, but only in the case of a small stratum within it.
Terrace after terrace was passed, each capped or protected by a stratum slightly harder than the main body of the bluff, which is the true formation of the Bad Lands and is now known by geologists as Brule clay.
He backed the mule, and with his foot scraped away an inch or two of dirt, beneath which he struck the stratum of bacon, disfigured somewhat by the heavy pressure of the animal's hoofs, but nevertheless recognizable as bacon.
Upon one of these I observed a thin, hardstratum in which numerous shells were tightly imbedded.
But what no Englishman confesses in his heart is that there is any class of these men--that there is as good an upper stratum to society there as in England.
A man need not be much past middle age to be able to remember when the Daily Telegraph created, by appealing to, a whole new stratum of newspaper readers.
In a democracy the essential principle of which is that every man shall have an equal chance of getting to the top, it is a matter of course that that top stratum will be constantly changing.
The more elemental you were, the closer you lived to the stratum the world couldn't do without.
The man of superior station down on his luck is not granted the full rights of the stratum to which he has descended; but even when an object of suspicion he is not one of hostility.
What strange mixtures of good and bad, of noble and base, every stratum of Paris life contains!
You have thus sought the well-spring of a political system in the deepest stratum of popular ignorance.
The result is that the members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum, and bend their energies to live up to that ideal.
A little below this place is a small cavern in the red granite rock, which forms the upper stratum of this mountain; it is called Mogharat el Hira.
The temperature at the surface of the earth may easily deceive, as a colder or warmer stratum of air may overlie that immediately next to the ground.
Even if no clouds are visible, neither will form if a stratum of humid air has prevented radiation.
The upper stratum will probably be cirrus from the west.
In winter hail falls before a rainstorm, even when the ground temperature precludes the possibility of snow; some lingering stratum of cold air has ensnared the drops on their way down.
I have seen water particles fall when the temperature was as low as 16 degrees above zero, showing that the stratum of cold air was very thin.
This condensation sinks until it enters a warmer stratum and the cloud is dissipated.
Very often it can be seen to rain from lofty clouds and the fringe of moisture apparently fail to reach the earth, because the condensation was licked up and totally absorbed on entering a stratum of warmer air.
Walthari of Aquitaine, though composed in the tenth century, is a monument of love, and tells us graphically of the position of woman, at least in the upper stratum of ancient society, at the time of its composition.
Like a moral miasma, this influence permeated everystratum of German society.
A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.
The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.
Defn: From a lithological point of view; as, to consider a stratum lithologically.
Defn: To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratumof earth superimposed on another stratum.
Defn: A part of a rock or stratumlying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.
Defn: A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria.
Defn: That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.
The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground.
Mining) Defn: A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod.
Defn: A mass orstratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
Oil Boring) A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay.
The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil.
Above these came a thirdstratum made up of fallen beech trees; and the beech is now, and has been since the beginning of recorded history, the most common tree of the Danish Peninsula.
Fruit trees do not thrive; but having grown a few years, reach some barren stratum and wither.
There was a stratum of common clay under the rock of marble.
We have seen that the general tendency of the waters of the ocean, and of the lower stratum of the atmosphere, is to a motion from the poles towards the equator.
An ordinary well consists of an excavation continued till a stratum is reached which is permanently saturated with water.
If the strata were perforated by boring at e till the porous stratum a is reached, the water will rise to the surface, constituting an Artesian well.
If the former melted condition of the entire mass of the earth be assumed, the temperature of the surface must have been increased, by conduction of heat from within, for long periods after the superficial stratum had become solid.
Hence, rain water, by passing through a stratum of earth or rock and reaeppearing as a spring, loses the insipidity which it had as pure water, and becomes palatable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stratum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
