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strata
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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If we do not know every one of them, if nature still keeps ichthyological secrets from us, nothing is more admissible than to accept the existence of fish or cetaceans of new species or even new genera, animals with a basically 'cast—iron' constitution that inhabit strata beyond the reach of our soundings, and which some development or other, an urge or a whim if you prefer, can bring to the upper level of the ocean for long intervals.†
Chpt 1
"Note well, my fine Canadian," I went on, "if such an animal exists, if it lives deep in the ocean, if it frequents the liquid strata located miles beneath the surface of the water, it needs to have a constitution so solid, it defies all comparison."†
Chpt 1
Because it takes incalculable strength just to live in those deep strata and withstand their pressure.†
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I felt—or at least I thought I did—the submersible sinking toward the sea's lower strata.†
Chpt 1
They're thermometric sounding lines that report water temperatures in the different strata.†
Chpt 1
However, even though electricity doesn't supply me with breathable air, it at least operates the powerful pumps that store it under pressure in special tanks; which, if need be, allows me to extend my stay in the lower strata for as long as I want.†
Chpt 1
When I wanted to determine what increase in weight the Nautilus needed to be given in order to submerge, I had only to take note of the proportionate reduction in volume that salt water experiences in deeper and deeper strata.†
Chpt 1
Who could portray the effects of this light through these translucent sheets of water, the subtlety of its progressive shadings into the ocean's upper and lower strata?†
Chpt 1
I observed that green—colored plants kept closer to the surface of the sea, while reds occupied a medium depth, which left blacks and browns in charge of designing gardens and flowerbeds in the ocean's lower strata.†
Chpt 1
While we were walking, I thought the lights of our Ruhmkorff devices would automatically attract some inhabitants of these dark strata.†
Chpt 1
But this return to the upper strata wasn't so sudden that decompression took place too quickly, which could have led to serious organic disorders and given us those internal injuries so fatal to divers.†
Chpt 1
However, from Lord—knows—what whim, one day it did a diagonal dive by means of its slanting fins, reaching strata located 2,000 meters underwater.†
Chpt 1
These polyps grow exclusively in the agitated strata at the surface of the sea, and so it's in the upper reaches that they begin these substructures, which sink little by little together with the secreted rubble binding them.†
Chpt 1
During this phase of our voyage, Captain Nemo conducted interesting experiments on the different temperatures in various strata of the sea.†
Chpt 1
Covered with heavy clouds, the stormy sky gave only the faintest light to the ocean's upper strata.†
Chpt 1
The Nautilus had drifted into the midst of some phosphorescent strata, which, in this darkness, came off as positively dazzling.†
Chpt 1
Was it reentering the motionless strata deep in the sea?†
Chpt 1
Coral sells for as much as ₣500 per kilogram, and in this locality the liquid strata hid enough to make the fortunes of a whole host of coral fishermen.†
Chpt 1
As for the temperature in these lower strata, the thermometer always and invariably indicated 4° centigrade.†
Chpt 2
Soon, from certain rolling and pitching movements, I sensed that the Nautilus had left the lower strata and was back on the surface of the water.†
Chpt 2
Volcanoes were quite numerous in the world's early days, but they're going extinct one by one; the heat inside the earth is growing weaker, the temperature in the globe's lower strata is cooling appreciably every century, and to our globe's detriment, because its heat is its life.†
Chpt 2
The Nautilus, driven downward by its propeller and slanting fins, descended to the lowest strata of this sea.†
Chpt 2
So, in our swift cruise through these deep strata, how many vessels I saw lying on the seafloor, some already caked with coral, others clad only in a layer of rust, plus anchors, cannons, shells, iron fittings, propeller blades, parts of engines, cracked cylinders, staved—in boilers, then hulls floating in midwater, here upright, there overturned.†
Chpt 2
How could I relinquish this ocean—"my own Atlantic," as I liked to call it—without observing its lower strata, without wresting from it the kinds of secrets that had been revealed to me by the seas of the East Indies and the Pacific!†
Chpt 2
In these deep strata would I meet up with more of Captain Nemo's companions, friends he was about to visit who led lives as strange as his own?†
Chpt 2
But what I saw was simply a reflection produced by the crystal waters of these strata.†
Chpt 2
Where had nature learned the secret of their vegetating existence, and for how many centuries had they lived in the ocean's lower strata?†
Chpt 2
The panels in the lounge opened, and maneuvers began for reaching those strata so prodigiously far removed.†
Chpt 2
In going toward the ocean's lower strata, we know that vegetable life disappears more quickly than animal life.†
Chpt 2
In the second place, because oxygen is the basis of life, and we know that the amount of oxygen dissolved in salt water increases rather than decreases with depth, that the pressure in these lower strata helps to concentrate their oxygen content.†
Chpt 2
One sperm whale exterminated, it ran at another, tacked on the spot so as not to miss its prey, went ahead or astern, obeyed its rudder, dived when the cetacean sank to deeper strata, rose with it when it returned to the surface, struck it head—on or slantwise, hacked at it or tore it, and from every direction and at any speed, skewered it with its dreadful spur.†
Chpt 2
Their tails churned the normally peaceful strata into actual billows.†
Chpt 2
If the Nautilus was submerged during these losses of balance, we heard the resulting noises spread under the waters with frightful intensity, and the collapse of these masses created daunting eddies down to the ocean's lower strata.†
Chpt 2
Even though the surface of the sea has solidified into ice, its lower strata are still open, thanks to that divine justice that puts the maximum density of salt water one degree above its freezing point.†
Chpt 2
Through the open window we stared at the lower strata of this southernmost ocean.†
Chpt 2
Sliding under our hull, this block then raised us with irresistible power, lifting us into less congested strata where we now lie on our side.†
Chpt 2
After Ned was dressed, I reentered the lounge, whose windows had been uncovered; stationed next to Conseil, I examined the strata surrounding and supporting the Nautilus.†
Chpt 2
The liquid strata farthest from the trench, not warmed by the movements of workmen and tools, were showing a tendency to solidify.†
Chpt 2
How many other marvelous new specimens I still could have observed if, little by little, the Nautilus hadn't settled to the lower strata!†
Chpt 2
No. The upper strata were too violently agitated.†
Chpt 2
A few morning gleams infiltrated the liquid strata.†
Chpt 2

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levels, classes, or groups into which people or other things are divided
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