Word Meanings - STROMATOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The history of the formation of stratified rocks.

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• ROCKSUCKER
  A lamprey.
• FORMATION
  The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc. Farrow. (more info) 1. The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. Beattie. 2. The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation;
• HISTORY
  history, information, inquiry, fr. 'istwr, "istwr, knowing, learned, 1. A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record;
• STRATIFICATION
  The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance. (more info) 1. The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.
• STRATIFIED
  Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• TRANSFORMATION
  The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• MALECONFORMATION
  Malconformation.
• EFFORMATION
  The act of giving shape or form. Ray.
• PREFORMATION
  An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Emboîtement.
• INTERSTRATIFIED
  Stratified among or between other bodies; as, interstratified rocks.
• CONFORMATION
  1. The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity. The conformation of our hearts and lives to the duties of true religion and morality. I. Watts. 2. The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on
• MALEFORMATION
  See MALFORMATION
• MALFORMATION
  Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.
• INTERSTRATIFICATION
  Stratification among or between other layers or strata; also, that which is interstratified.
• INSTRATIFIED
  Interstratified.
• RE-FORMATION
  The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
• UNSTRATIFIED
  Not stratified; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata.