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Exchangeable :: Exchangeable (a.) Available for making exchanges; ratable.

Fault :: Fault (v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted..

Wealden :: Wealden (n.) The Wealden group or strata.

Dike :: Dike (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata..

Cliff Limestone :: Cliff limestone () A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian..

Interstratify :: Interstratify (v. t.) To put or insert between other strata.

Anglemeter :: Anglemeter (n.) An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata..

Ratan :: Ratan (n.) See Rattan.

Stratagem :: Strata (n.) pl. of Stratum.

Crataegus :: Crataegus (n.) A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes..

Errata :: Errata (n. pl.) See Erratum.

Chicanery :: Chicanery (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

Decacerata :: Decacerata (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata..

Krameric :: Krameric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, Krameria (rhatany); as, krameric acid, usually called ratanhia-tannic acid..

Invertebrate :: Invertebrate (a.) Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebrae; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata.

Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..

Laramie Group :: Laramie group () An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology..

Strath :: Strategy (n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.

Paratactic :: Paratactic (a.) Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis..

Imperforata :: Imperforata (n. pl.) A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous..

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