Word: strata
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...strong indications of other treasures as well. More than 200 million years ago, before the world's continents began their slow drift apart, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa, India and Australia as part of a great landmass that scientists call Pangaea (Greek for whole earth). In strata similar to those of its long-separated continental cousins, Antarctica, like the tip of South America and southeastern Australia, may possess uranium...
...Tell Mardikh strata reveal that Ebla reached its zenith in the middle of the 3rd millennium, around 2300 B.C. It reigned over a vast network of trade routes, lending business expertise to cities hundreds of miles away. A century later it had apparently fallen, its coffers plundered and its walls razed by rivals to the south...
...areas of wildcat exploration, rigs are in many cases going deeper and becoming more expensive. Probing for gas deposits, which are usually found beneath oil strata, is particularly costly. Exxon this year spent about $42 million drilling a gas well in Mississippi that was 23,154 ft. deep. The results from wildcat wells, though, no longer match those enjoyed in the halcyon days of great American oil discoveries. The output of oil, or an equivalent amount of gas, discovered in new wildcats has declined from more than 350 bbl. per ft. of drilling in the late 1940s to less than...
Since World War II several thousand new spiritual practices, healing therapies and "consciousness cults" have appeared in the U.S., and simultaneously the charismatic Christian revival has accelerated and spread into new social strata. While often opposed in outlooks, values and interpretations, both the Eastern religious-humanistic psychologies and the Pentecosal movement challenge the prevailing scientific-secular-liberal orthodoxy. Liberalism is founded on the notion of progress, specifically a bigger and tastier economic pie each year, made possible by the ever-expanding industrial machine. But now, according to Rifkin...
...nine decades, Liang took part in most of the great debates and political movements that have swept China since the downfall of the imperium. But throughout, his influence has primarily been restricted to what Alitto has called the literate "middlebrow" strata of Chinese society. Alitto, however, chafed in his role as the chronicler of one man and his influence. Consequently, the book is marred by his attempts to make Liang an overarching symbol for traditional China, striving to capture in one life, the dilemmas of an entire nation confronted with alien cultures and agonizing domestic political choices...