interstratify
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
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to interlay with or interpose between other strata.
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to arrange in alternate strata.
verb
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In the Lough Mask district beds of this age are found, as in Wales, interstratified with volcanic lavas and tuffs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
"You doubtless noticed on the shore that the deep-lying metamorphic crystals have been exposed by erosion, leaving on the upper levels faulted strata of tilted lava-sheets interstratified with pudding-stone."
From The Cruise of the Kawa by Chappell, George S. (George Shepard)
The interstratified or volcanic series is of special importance in geology, inasmuch as it contains the records of volcanic action during the past history of the globe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
The first of these divisions represents the plutonic, intrusive or subsequent phase of eruptivity; the second marks the volcanic, interstratified or contemporaneous phase.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
When they occur as beds interstratified with aqueous strata, they are said to be contemporaneous, because they have evidently been erupted at the time the series of strata among which they appear was being amassed.
From Geology by Geikie, James
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