interbedded
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of interbedded
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"Sarlacc's Pit" is a "striped karst", marble interbedded with rock units containing less marble, which gives the rock a striped look.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2018
The coal is found, as already described, interbedded with shales and sandstones.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
They lie upon an eroded Cenomanian surface and are to some extent interbedded with Upper Cretaceous sediments.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
The deposits which at present constitute the principal source of domestic borax are not the playa deposits just described, but are masses of colemanite in Tertiary clays and limestones with interbedded basaltic flows.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
In the Adirondack Mountains of New York and in the highlands of New Jersey, magnetites are interbedded and infolded with gneisses, granites, and metamorphic limestones.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
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