What's the difference between outcrop and stratum?

Outcrop


Definition:

  • (n.) The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground.
  • (n.) That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset.
  • (v. i.) To come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
  • (2) A rocky outcrop on the edge of the continent, now called the Point Lobos state reserve, it is a beautifully elemental place that remains much as it was in Weston's time.
  • (3) Both Bishop and Shorten said operational details of freedom-of-navigation exercises were a matter for the military, and did not call for such operations within 12 nautical miles of Chinese rock outcrops or artificial islands.
  • (4) • enjoythecoast.it Plage de Bon Secours, Saint-Malo, France Facebook Twitter Pinterest On calm days, there is a striking contrast between the mirror-like surface of Saint-Malo sea pool and the ruffled sea beyond, between the order of its geometric walls and the random rocky outcrops behind them.
  • (5) So that’s what I did: I decided that this would no longer be just a rocky outcrop on the port of Funchal, it would be my island, about the size of a one-bedroom house.
  • (6) His destination was the large outcrop of copper-bearing strata in the mountains above the village of Mes Aynak.
  • (7) This rocky outcrop sees hundreds of visitors daily, in good weather and bad, and thousands of swimmers on Christmas Day.
  • (8) Stretching north of Punta del Este, the landscape and atmosphere of the Uruguayan coast changes swiftly and dramatically - huge swathes of empty beach, boutique hideaways on isolated outcrops, candlelit hippie towns and tiny fishing villages.
  • (9) It is one of the rocky outcrops overlooking the bucolic valley of Qunu, where South Africa's first black president grew up and which, at 93, he still calls home.
  • (10) At its margin abutting the central fibrous body the atrioventricular (A-V) node exhibited numerous fronds and outcroppings, some forming loop connections from one part of A-V node to another.
  • (11) The three-mile loop overlooks the blue-tinged fossil-rich outcrop where many of John Day’s fossils have been found.
  • (12) But new research about to be published suggests that over the decades they may have been chipping away at the wrong rocky outcrop on the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire .
  • (13) Plans to build the UK's first geothermal plant that would use heat from granite outcrops beneath the Earth's surface to power a small town were unveiled today.
  • (14) They made it clear that these “motherfucker refugees” were not welcome on the charmless rocky outcrop.
  • (15) In north-east Corsica, asbestos outcrops are a source of environmental pollution, as assessed by airborne concentrations of chrysotile and tremolite that are significantly higher in the north-east than the north-west.
  • (16) Known in China as the Diaoyu Islands, this small collection of islets and rocky outcroppings in the East China Sea has lain outside of direct Chinese control since 1895.
  • (17) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
  • (18) Dunvegan Castle and Gardens Clinging to a rocky outcrop, Dunvegan Castle has been the MacLeod stronghold for eight centuries.
  • (19) On the other side, the vegetation opened up again and the slope led down towards a small outcrop wreathed with pine trees.
  • (20) Calm and controlled, he stood on an outcrop barely 7m from where I was standing, his gaze locked on the swimmers.

Stratum


Definition:

  • (n.) A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.
  • (n.) A bed or layer artificially made; a course.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) None of the other soft tissue layers-ameloblasts, stratum intermedium or dental follicle--immunostain for TGF-beta 1.
  • (2) Intraepidermal clefting starts at the junction between the basal and epidermal layers, and later involves all of the levels of the stratum spinosum.
  • (3) After application to the skin, oxiconazole is rapidly absorbed into the stratum corneum, maximum concentrations often being attained within 100 minutes.
  • (4) The lower lipid content, expressed as weight per unit weight of tissue, in palmo-plantar stratum corneum as compared to non-palmo-plantar stratum corneum may be related to the fact that a larger portion of the intercellular space of the former tissue is occupied by desmosomes.
  • (5) Emollients can increase the water content in the stratum corneum by delivery of their water to the skin, and by occlusion.
  • (6) Since DG I belongs to the group of transmembrane desmosomal proteins that is believed to constitute the link between the intracellular parts of desmosomes of opposing cells, it is concluded that desmosomes may play an important role in plantar stratum corneum cell cohesion, and that degradation of desmosomes may be an important step in desquamation in plantar epidermis.
  • (7) The stratum superficiale consists during this phase of tall columnar cells.
  • (8) Sheet preparations of the stratum granulosum from the epithelium of the ventral surface of mouse tongue permit examination of cell replacement of this maturation compartment of the tissue.
  • (9) A less extreme drop occurs in stratum radiatum 0.4 mm from the subiculum border, without obvious histological correlate.
  • (10) For this purpose, the author relies on the observations of a group of doctors during a 5-year attempt to interest neurotic patients in this stratum in a psycho-therapeutic discussion at a medical ambulant clinic.
  • (11) However, AGC and AC in their hydrogenated form also caused aggregation and stacking of the stratum corneum lipid liposomes.
  • (12) Although their numbers are greatest in the polymorph region of the fascia dentata (FD) and in the principal cell layers stratum pyramidale (SP) and stratum granulosum (SG), GAD immunoreactive (GAD-IR) cells are numerous in other strata that contain mostly dendrites and scattered cells.
  • (13) mGluR1 alpha, a 142 kd protein, is enriched within the olfactory bulb, stratum oriens of CA1 and polymorph layer of dentate gyrus in hippocampus, globus pallidus, thalamus, substantia nigra, superior colliculus, and cerebellum.
  • (14) In an electron microscopic study, we found transitional cells between the stratum granulosum and stratum corneum that were increased in CRP.
  • (15) Following micropressure application of glutamate (500 microM) in stratum lacunosum-moleculare (L-M), inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (glut-IPSPs) were recorded in CA1 pyramidal cells.
  • (16) For the skins without stratum corneum, the permeation rates and permeation amounts of l-NG and dl-NG were higher than those for the intact skin (P less than 0.01), but no significant difference was seen between l-NG and dl-NG.
  • (17) Most of the GABA-negative calretinin-immunoreactive neurons were located in the hilus of the dentate gyrus and in stratum lucidum of the CA3 subfield.
  • (18) A null zone and associated sudden phase-reversal of RSA were observed in stratum lucidum of CA3.
  • (19) However, when the stratum corneum was removed by tape stripping, the respective permeability coefficients were increased greater than 30-fold, establishing the stratum corneum as the principal barrier to their skin permeation.
  • (20) Moisture on the skin was shown to increase the discharge to a standard stimulus, probably by its softening effect on the stratum corneum.