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Goldenville Strata exposed at a quarry in Bedford, Canada. It is made up of thick layers of ocean sediments that were laid down during the Middle Cambrian period and were subsequently pushed up onto land. This formation now covers over half of the provinc |
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There are 7 summaries on Stratum.
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 Stratification Summary
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 the layering that occurs in most sedimentary rocks and in those igneous rocks formed at the Earth's surface, as from lava flows and volcanic fragmental deposits. The layers range from several millimetres to many metres in thickness and vary greatly in... summary from source:
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The process by which a region is divided into relatively distinct, nearly horizontal, layers. Sedimentary rock often consists of various strata because the rock was laid at different times when different materials were being deposited. Lakes and oceans... summary from source:
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// (pl. strata //) n. 1. In Relational Grammar, any one of the several levels of organization typically postulated as forming part of the syntactic structure of a sentence. 2. More generally, in any theory of grammar in which the structure of a... summary from source:
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1 Level of classification whose elements define the elements of the next highest level. For example, morphophonemes are defined by phonemes. 2 In S.M.Lamb’s stratificational grammar, structural levels which are ordered hierarchically and have a... summary from source:
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Layering that occurs in most sedimentary rocks and in igneous rocks that are formed at the Earth's surface, such as from lava flows and volcanic deposits. The layers (strata) may range from thin sheets that cover many square miles to thick lenslike... summary from source:
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n. (pl. strata 1. Any one of the planes of representation recognized in Stratificational phonology. 2. [rare] See level (sense... summary from source:
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In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics that distinguishes it from contiguous layers. Each layer is generally one of a number of parallel layers that lie one upon... 
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