Stratum vs Bedrock - What's the difference?
stratum | bedrock |
One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
(geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
(biology) A layer of tissue.
A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
(ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
(uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.
A basis or foundation.
* 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html?_r=1&hp]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):
As nouns the difference between stratum and bedrock
is that stratum is one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another while bedrock is the solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.stratum
English
Noun
(strata)Synonyms
* (layers of material arranged one on top of another) tierbedrock
English
(wikipedia bedrock)Noun
- Many of the bedrock assumptions of American culture — about work, progress, fairness and optimism — are being shaken as successive generations worry about the prospect of declining living standards.