Meanings of geological strata in English

Here and there, in the far distance, they could see darker spots caused by buckled geological strata.

Striated muscle tissue becomes the geological strata of a roadcut or the surface of an alien planet.

Fossil sequence in geological strata shows:

Everybody here keeps talking to me about primaries and secondaries and tertiaries as if people were geological strata.

Natural talk, like ploughing, should turn up a large surface of life, rather than dig mines into geological strata.

Countless layers applied like geological strata over the ages gave the wood the slightly rippled appearance of old glass.

The reviewer says, that if the doctrine were true, geological strata would be full of monsters which have failed!

What preparation seems to have been made for it in the conformation of the ground, even in the deep underlying geological strata!

In those days I had over my bed a map of the geological strata of the district-indifferent colours like a chocolate macaroon.

In London I had immense satisfaction in observing the bridges there, and in walking over them, firm as the geological strata and as enduring.

As you tap on the topmost of the geological strata concealing the ground-glass of the door, a sense of relief and security floods your being.

But in my view, these apparently different historical stages are more like successive geological strata than quantum shifts from one "medium" to the next.