Crossword-Solution: STRATAS 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Why! you can almost read the history of the geological world from yesterday--this morning as it were--beginning with the super-surface on top and going right down through the different layers and stratas--through the vanished ages--right down and back to the pre-historical--to the very primeval or fundamental geological formations!” And Steelman studied the face of the cutting as if he could read it like a book, with every layer or stratum a chapter, and every streak a note of explanation.

The boss seemed to be getting interested, and Steelman gained confidence and proceeded to identify and classify the different “stratas and layers,” and fix their ages, and describe the conditions and politics of man in their different times, for the boss's benefit.

The ice which incloses them lyes in several stratas of unequal thicknesses which are seperated by streams of water.

The Country on either hand is high broken and rockey; the rock is either soft brown sand stone covered with a thin strata of limestone, or a hard black rugged grannite, both usually in horizontal stratas and the Sandy rock overlaying the other.--Salts and quarts still appear, some coal and pumice stone also appear; the river bottoms are narrow and afford scarcely any timber.

The thin Stratas of hard free Stone intermixed with the Soft Sand Stone Seems to have aided the water in forming this Curious Scenery.