strata

Outside the small town of Caliente in southeast Nevada, the road turned to well-graded dirt, curving around the rocky mountains whose strata mark the tectonics and erosions that led them to their current state.

For those not in that exalted strata, being ambushed by a force majeure of imminent death has often compelled ad hoc bequests that are more MacGyver than mundane.

In nearly all cases, it is an exposed outcrop of ancient marine sediment that has a defining contact between two strata that represents a global environmental shift of prolonged duration.

The strata we are considering dip towards the North; the line of strike is East and West.