Stratum
['strɑːtəm;'streɪtəm] or ['stretəm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock).
整理:萨莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.
(n.) A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. [L. pl. Strata.] Layer, bed.
錄入:莉娜
解釋/意思:
n. a bed of earth or rock formed by natural causes and consisting usually of a series of layers: any bed or layer:—pl. Strā′ta.—adj. Strat′iform formed like strata.—ns. Stratig′rapher Stratig′raphist a student of stratigraphical geology.—adjs. Stratigraph′ic -al concerned with the relative position of the strata forming the earth's crust.—adv. Stratigraph′ically.—n. Stratig′raphy the order and position of the stratified groups: the study or description of these descriptive geology.—adj. Strā′tose arranged in layers stratified.—n.pl. Strat′ūla. thin layers in rock-strata.
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例句/造句/用法:
- At the Cape Verde Islands he made some interesting observations of a white calcareous stratum which ran for miles along the coast at a height of a) bout forty-five feet above the water. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It was evident that subsequen tly to the formation of the basalt that portion of the coast containing the white stratum had been elevated. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The heather and peat stratum overhung the brow of the pit in mats, hiding the actual verge. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- These are driven in by heavy hammers until the stratum is cut through. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There is no unbroken stratum of illiterates. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Murchison at their head, were until recently convinced that we beheld in the organic remains of the lowest Silurian stratum the first dawn of life. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- At the lower levels we meet the same stratum of phosphorescent rock that illuminates Omean. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- If his supposition were correct, then granite would be found sending out veins from its large masses to pierce the stratifi ed rocks and to crop out where stratum meets stratum. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The Milky Way is one stratum and in it our sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very center of its thickness. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Still h e could not explain why the oxygen did not gravitate to the lowest place, the nitrogen form a stratum above, and the aqueous vapor swim upon the top. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The she lls in the stratum were recent, that is, corresponded to those still to be found on the neighboring coast. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- H ow are strata raised from the ocean bed? 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- For on the theory, such strata must somewhere have been deposited at these ancient and utterly unknown epochs of the world's history. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- There are three great series of strata beneath the Silurian system in Canada, in the lowest of which the Eozoon is found. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- As early as 1747 he had been interested in geology and had seen specimens of the fossil remains of marine shells from th e strata of the highest parts of the Alleghany Mountains. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Had the different strata of clay, gravel, marble, coals, limestone, sand, minerals, &c. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Lyell and Dr. Dawson in the carboniferous strata of North America; but now land-shells have been found in the lias. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- W erner thought that the earth showed universal strata like the layers of an onion, the mountains being formed by erosion, subsidence, cavings-in. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Later he stated that either the sea had once stood at a higher level, or that these strata had been raised by the force of earthquakes. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I return you Mr. Mitchell's paper on the strata of the earth[36] with thanks. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- On the other hand, in all parts of the world the piles of sedimentary strata are of wonderful thickness. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- All strata are sedimentary, consolidated at the bottom of the sea by the pressure of the water and by subterranean heat. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Stones apparently chipped for use have been found in strata of Oligocene Age at Boncelles in Belgium. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Moreover, the same order of superposition was constant among the strata, as Werner, of whom Smith knew nothing, had indeed taugh t. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The red lava of deep revolutionary fires oozed up through many glowing cracks in the political crust, and all the social strata were shaken. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Can we easily conceive how the strata of the earth could have been so deranged, if it had not been a mere shell supported by a heavier fluid? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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