Sentences with phrase «layers over millennia»
Built up in tissue - thin layers over millennia, corals are the high - rise apartment buildings of this underwater Gotham.
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In excavating sites in a long - inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds — how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during the site's continuous use over millennia.
Indeed, Altmejd's work mimics the complexity achieved in the natural world through the continual layering of elements and structures built up over millennia.