"horizontal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Clouds of diesel smoke drifted and pooled and formed horizontal strata, like smog.
- All around are the sandstone cliffs with their multi-coloured layers - these horizontal strata are a characteristic feature of the area.
- And then an area lined with horizontal strata about a metre in thickness, making a steep - a very steep - ladder.
- The plan was dropped, but the logic behind it - that Jerusalem can be parceled into horizontal strata - is very much alive.
- Some of the horizontal strata were delicately thin; another was ten meters thick, a single band the color of mahogany.
- As it was uplifted, the horizontal strata of the surrounding area, mainly consisting of muschelkalk, were tilted.
- The hills west of the town consist of horizontal strata of sandstone covered with irregular pieces of basalt.
- Clay-slate and limestone lie in nearly horizontal strata beneath them.
- The Maya world was divided into three horizontal strata.
- The falls are an example of river drainage regulated by stratigraphically-controlled springs, and also of a waterfall formed by undercutting of horizontal strata.
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