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Substratum :: Substrata (pl. ) of Substratu.

Stratification :: Stratification (n.) The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers..

Anticlinal :: Anticlinal (n.) The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

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

Silurian :: Silurian (a.) Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country..

Eozoic :: Eozoic (a.) Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoon has been found..

Practice :: Practice (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.

Plot :: Plot (n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot..

Finesse :: Finesse (v. i.) To use artifice or stratagem.

Group :: Group (n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata..

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..

Wernerian :: Wernerian (a.) Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system..

Estuary :: Estuary (a.) Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata..

Downthrow :: Downthrow (n.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n..

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

Anthraciferous :: Anthraciferous (a.) Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata..

Uncoformability :: Uncoformability (n.) Want of parallelism between one series of strata and another, especially when due to a disturbance of the position of the earlier strata before the latter were deposited..

Plot :: Plot (v. i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.

Rake :: Rake (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein..

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..

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