Sentences with phrase «layers of strata»

In this case, for example, if it is possible to absolute date two layers of strata.

They usually consist of fossil trees that were buried upright, and which often traverse multiple layers of strata such as sandstone, limestone, shale, and even coal beds.

If there is to be the adventure of moving from one moment, from one layer of strata, to the next, there must be space for the incursion of new possibility, a condition of indeterminateness inviting new determination.

This oil, highly prized in Ayurvedic medicine for its healing properties, penetrates into layers of the stratum corneum to reduce flaking and soothe and soften cracked skin.

Not exact matches

with colleagues who are in different strata of society, who belong to its larger and major cultural layer.

Instead of seeing in the Gospels numerous layers of literary strata, Wright sees traditions that have been passed along relatively intact, with some editing done by the transmitters and then by the Gospel writers.

evolution is unable to explain where the layers of sediments in the strata came» try billions of years

Evolution never disproved Genesis because evolution is unable to explain where the layers of sediments in the strata came from without a global flood so the flood is still historical fact which means evolution never happened.

In all the baby diaper rashes, the outermost layer of skin — stratum corneum — has been damaged.

The outermost layer of the skin having keratinized cells is called as stratum corneum.

Just above that layer is the Blairite stratum: not by accident did Tony Blair talk endlessly about the sanctity of «schoolsnhospitals».

He became obsessed with unconformities in the rocks, where strata are distorted, rumpled or jumbled in composition, some layers of rock thrusting near vertically into those above or below.

Elias is also a consultant for the cosmetics industry and invites industry researchers into his lab for a few weeks or a few years so that they can learn about the structure, function, and metabolism of the stratum corneum, the top layer of the skin.

When the floodwaters evaporated, the millimetre of silt left behind became the youngest stratum in a succession of sediment layers that is today about 1.5 kilometres thick.

They then removed a small sample of paint from the painting's blue walls, which revealed strata of color «exposed like a layer cake,» Casadio said.

The next step, then, was to strip away the layers of the intestine, including its mucosal and muscle strata, until he was finally left with a paper - thin sheet of connective tissue called the extracellular matrix — the magical ECM.

The outermost layer of skin, the stratum corneum, regulates water loss from the body and protects underlying living tissue from germs and the environment, in general.

In the face of the cliff I recognized the same sedimentary features I'd seen at Joggins: pancake layers of geological strata, dark traces of coal, a scree of fallen rocks on the shoreline below.

Maybe this is just a layer in the strata, like the iridium contaminated layer when the dinosaurs ended or the layer of ash left when Boudicca burned down Roman London.

This technique increases the permeability of the skin by heating and removing the first skin layer, the stratum corneum (SC).

In addition to Roman - Jewish and Byzantine layers, there are also strata present reflecting a variety of the many Islamic cultures that have ruled the city between the Umayyad and Ottoman periods (seventh to twentieth centuries).

They can survive for thousands, millions, perhaps billions of years in rock strata [rock or sediment layers] in the future.

Simon Parfitt of University College London and his colleagues found the flints and ascertained their antiquity by, among other things, dating the rock layer in which they were found as well as animal bones from that same stratum.

Parker's estimate, if correct, means those Chinle layers lacking prosauropods are young enough to align with strata from high - latitude areas of Pangaea where the fossil record shows prosauropods had become plentiful.

It's the result of an effort by Paula Hammond, who heads MIT's chemical engineering department, to perfect a process of layer - by - layer assembly that enables nanoparticles to carry several drugs between their strata.

Continuous annually layered strata provide the best kind of geological archive in which to search for a «golden spike» — these form on the floors of oxygen - starved seas and lakes, in glacial ice, and in corals and trees with seasonal growth rings

Volcanic ash yields reliable dates and the dating of the Koobi Foora and Illeret muds is no less reliable because they lay between reliably dated ash strata [layers].

When an icy impact occurred, the impactor's kinetic energy became heat energy, instantly melted some ice, gouged out a crater, and kicked up into Mars» thin atmosphere large amounts of debris mixed with water (liquid, ice crystals, and vapor)-- and complex organic molecules that obviously came recently from life.127 Then, the dirt and salt - water mixture settled back to the surface in vast layers of thin sheets — strata — especially around the crater.

The stratum corneum is made up of 10 to 30 thin layers of dead cells.

The stratum corneum is the outermost, visible layer of the epidermis.

It is made up of five layers: the basal cell layer, the squamous cell layer, the stratum granulosum, the stratum lucidum, and the stratum corneum.

The skin of the lips contains the three layers of skin that appear in the rest of skin — stratum corneum, epidermis, and dermis (which contains collagen for plumpness).

«The outermost layer of the skin, called the stratum corneum, gets thicker and that makes the skin feel rough.»

Retinoids encourage the reconstruction of collagen and remove dead skin cells from the stratum corneum or top layer of the epidermis to reveal new skin underneath.

So, the lighter they are, the better they are at passing through the stratum corneum, which is the outermost layer of the skin.»

Stratigraphy is the study of strata (sedimentary layers) in the Earths crust.

The method of reading the order is called stratigraphy (layers of rock are called strata).

It is not dark and it is not cutting, instead it is an aching, pining film that layers the simplicity of this love affair with such strata of feeling that the story eventually becomes the essence of every affair ever, gay or straight, in which true, luminous love has been denied by circumstance.

One area that has attracted much attention in the last several years is a stratum of shale called the Marcellus, which was discovered 150 years ago and named for a small town in New York state where the layer of shale had, after a series of geological upheavals, been wrenched to the surface.

The author cites his reasoning for going in this direction «A traditional print book (along with the conventional e-book versions that replicate them) has two layers: the main body and a thin stratum of footnotes and endnotes.

That was more than 20 years ago... He says his predecessors had accumulated light technologies one after another, in the same way that each stratum of earth stacks one layer atop the previous.

Like D. cornei in dogs, it resides in the stratum corneum layer of the epidermis.

A hard dolomite, formed during the Oligocene - Miocene epoch, Caymanite has layers of colours in beautiful earth tones, formed by the different metallic content of the strata.

Tracts of color are dragged across the canvas using a squeegee, so that the various strains of malleable, semi-liquid pigment suspended in oil are fused together and smudged first into the canvas, and then layered on top of each other as the paint strata accumulate to bring color and textural juxtapositions.

The exposed strata of sites such as Downpatrick Head echo the layers of the Grand Canyon, a heterogeneous stack of books or even layers of paint on a studio floor all of which are represented in the exhibition.

Often, as through a geology of painting, the work accumulates successive strata throughout its creation, resulting in layered works, seemingly formed through an interplay between sedimentation and rushing rapids.

The artist's approach, according to his galleries, «involves layering subtly modulated acrylic paint across canvases, repeated polishing with sanders, and veneers of reflective resin which allow light to penetrate the stratum of the picture and reflect back with exceptional illumination.»

Between 1959 and 1960 Polke completed a glass - painting apprenticeship, an experience that contributed to his lifelong attraction to transparency and layering, with many of his later paintings utilising see - through plastics or being painstakingly built up using strata upon strata of found imagery.

This kind of interaction arises from the artist's understanding of how to manipulate the imagery so that each layer that is applied develops its own conversational relationship with the stratum below, and the result is a deceptively subtle spatial density.

The most noticeable, and therefore notable, features of Keltie Ferris's well - lavished paintings are their two most immediate strata: Ferris finishes off her large - scale abstractions with arrays of spray - painted dots and dashes and then returns with a brush loaded with a higher - intensity, contrasting color to lay down short, chunky strokes tightly packed in vertical, parallel arrangements around the previous layer.