cross bedding

British

noun

Also called: false bedding. geology layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification

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Above the ledge there is massive sandstone, but below it for 100 feet or more there is an area of cross bedding, and the rock has an almost vertical cleavage, 132 apparently standing upright in thin slabs 2 to 6 inches thick.

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The cavity was caused apparently by the occurrence of a pocket of material softer than that about it, and this softer material has weathered out, showing very strongly the lines of cross bedding, which, in the massive rock on either side, have been almost entirely obliterated.

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Shoals built by strong and shifting tidal currents often show successive strata in which the cross bedding is inclined in different directions.

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From a boat anchored over the lower end of a submerged sand bar we may observe the way in which this structure, called cross bedding, is produced.

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To this diagonal arrangement the name of "false or cross bedding" has been given.

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