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Definition of Superstrata
1. superstratum [n] - See also: superstratum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superstrata
Literary usage of Superstrata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"Such superstrata are not confined to the countries just instanced, or to the
basin in question. Depositions, more or less similar, and containing organic ..."
2. Aristotle by George Grote (1872)
"But in truth the Subject is only a substratum for predicates,11 as much as the
predicates are superstrata upon the Subject. The term substratum designates ..."
3. Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales: With an Introductory by William Daniel Conybeare, William Phillips (1822)
"... between the superstrata of the coal-formation of Derbyshire and Yorkshire and
the substrata of shale. From the northern angle of Derbyshire it bends ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1840)
"... the superstrata will remain completely undermined ; and as an excessively wet
season will, by saturating the whole with moisture, increase the weight of ..."
5. The book of the Axe: Containing a Piscatorial Description of that Stream and by George Philip Rigney Pulman (1875)
"Thus considerable portions of the fox-mould being gradually removed along the
lines through which these springs have found their course, the superstrata ..."
6. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1872)
"Let ns suppose that the superstrata are homogeneous, and so resistant a» ....
By the falling of the walls of the caverns aud moats, the props of superstrata ..."
7. Transactions (1859)
"... the pillars to be lastly taken off will have the whole weight of the superstrata
upon them, with no lateral support, there being goaf on both sides. ..."
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