NOUN | a rock stratum | rock strata | |
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- This rock stratum is present below ground in much of West Virginia and neighboring Kentucky, and extends somewhat into adjacent western Maryland and southwestern Virginia.
- The absence of firm rock stratum to support the cylinders as originally designed necessitated a reduction of their bearing pressure.
- The elevation at the west end is higher than the east but there is very little perceptible slope except for several gentle, short grades which exist presumably to follow the easiest-to-bore rock stratum.
- The device was demonstrated to the Prince Regent (later George IV), but was found to suffer from various engineering problems, possibly caused by the soft fuller's earth rock stratum in the area.
- Geologically, the oldest rock stratum is over 850 million years old and dinosaurs tracks were left there some 200 million years ago.
- Rock shelters form because a rock stratum such as sandstone that is resistant to erosion and weathering has formed a cliff or bluff, but a softer stratum, more subject to erosion and weathering, lies just below the resistant stratum, and thus undercuts the cliff.
- Geologically, the island is made of sedimentary rock stratum of Ranquil Formation, a formation whose main outcrops lie in the continent.
- Formed in the Late Permian, the rock stratum is up to 90 metres thick.
- The only certainty regarding the number of events involved in the formation of the bone beds is that more than one occurred since at least one bonebed is known to be preserved in a rock stratum directly over another bonebed.
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