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What rock is called strata?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The word strata is the plural of the word stratum. A stratum is any individual layer of rock that has relatively uniform internal properties.

As such, any type of rock can be a stratum, it doesn't refer to any particular type of rock.

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