All 12 Uses
strata
in
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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- In that place the fiord was at least three English miles wide; the waves rolled with a rushing din upon the sharp-pointed rocks; this inlet was confined between walls of rock, precipices crowned by sharp peaks 2,000 feet high, and remarkable for the brown strata which separated the beds of reddish tuff.†
Chpt 12
- The mass was composed of inclined and sometimes vertical strata.†
Chpt 19 *
- [1]The name given by Sir Roderick Murchison to a vast series of fossiliferous strata, which lies between the non-fossiliferous slaty schists below and the old red sandstone above†
Chpt 19
- The beds of coal were separated by strata of sandstone or compact clays, and appeared crushed under the weight of overlying strata.†
Chpt 20
- The beds of coal were separated by strata of sandstone or compact clays, and appeared crushed under the weight of overlying strata.†
Chpt 20
- The play of the electric light produced singular effects upon the upper strata of cloud.†
Chpt 30
- Deep and heavy explosions are heard from time to time, when the enormous jet, possessed with more furious violence, shakes its plumy crest, and springs with a bound till it reaches the lowest stratum of the clouds.
Chpt 34stratum = layereditor's notes: Strata, the plural form of this word is used much more commonly than the singular form. Many Latin words that end in "um" are made plural by changing the "um" to "a"--such as stratum to strata, bacterium to bacteria, and millennium to millennia. In modern writing, changing the "um" to "ums" is also accepted for many Latin words ending in um, but not for any of those listed above.
- It seemed upset, contorted, and convulsed by a violent upheaval of the lower strata.†
Chpt 37
- In many places depressions or elevations gave witness to some tremendous power effecting the dislocation of strata.†
Chpt 37
- There within three square miles were accumulated the materials for a complete history of the animal life of ages, a history scarcely outlined in the too recent strata of the inhabited world.†
Chpt 37
- But if you ask me how he came there, how those strata on which he lay slipped down into this enormous hollow in the globe, I confess I cannot answer that question.†
Chpt 38
- Torch in hand, he tried to gather some idea of our situation from the observation of the strata.†
Chpt 42
Definitions:
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(1)
(strata) layers
or:
levels, classes, or groups into which people or other things are divided - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)