Word: stratas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spanish Honduras. Dr. Thomas W. F. Gann of the British Museum investigated engraved Mayan monoliths that furnished an accurate check on the calendar archaeologists have worked out for Mayan history. In Guatemala, Dr. Manuel Gamio of Mexico dug into highland strata, discovered archaic pottery and sculptures clearly pre-Mayan to support the theory that the Mayas' ancestors lived in the hills, whence earthquakes drove them to lower levels and firmer architecture...
...Grand Canyon, along the Hermit Trail, U. S. National Museum men busied themselves making photographs of what some took to be tracks of a prehistoric 8-legged 16-toed animal in shale and sandstone strata, 400 ft. lower than any foot printed strata known thereabouts...
...certain that such a mind has not been marking time within the precincts of a dusty pedagogy during 27 years. It has a large side interest in botany, for which it has a second international reputation. And upon its central field it has driven through to fundamental strata. It has pondered the ineluctable problem of Law, the body of popular custom opposed to Law, the rational phenomenon. It has resolved in favor of the latter conception - "Law is a practical matter" - and it seeks to root out the arbitrary, the illogical, the instinctive. It realizes that "the great source...
...Princeton University, Geologist B. F. Howell announced that a tiny fossil fishplate (scale) which he had picked the previous summer out of Cambrian strata in Franklin County, Vt., had been identified as belonging to a primitive fish, the earliest known creature to possess a notochord (rudimentary spine), which swam in the days of trilobites and brachiopods as the then (over 50 million years ago) highest form of animal life. Fellow scientists named the scale in honor of its discoverer "Howell's dawn fish," marking the dawn of vertebrate life...
State geologists sped to the scene, not knowing beforehand whether to attribute the subsidence to dissolving limestone strata over subterranean caverns, or to some extinct volcano's clearing its throat and swallowing. When Geologist G. S. Lambert arrived, the volcano theory was discarded. He called attention to the nature of a round lake some six miles away, called Old Maid's Pool. From its formation, it had evidently come into existence years ago in just the way the new pool had been formed. He remarked the presence of much gypsum and calcite in the region, two minerals soluble...