interstratify

American  

[in-ter-strat-uh-fahy] / ˌɪn tərˈstræt əˌfaɪ /

verb (used without object)

interstratified, interstratifying

1. to lie in interposed or alternate strata.

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verb (used with object)

interstratified, interstratifying

1. to interlay with or interpose between other strata.

2. to arrange in alternate strata.

interstratify British  

/ ˌɪntəˈstrætɪˌfaɪ /

verb

1. (tr; usually passive) to arrange (a series of rock strata) in alternating beds

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Other Word Forms

• interstratification
  noun

Etymology

Origin of interstratify

First recorded in 1815–25; inter- + stratify

Example Sentences

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interstratified

Serpentines, peridotites and diabases are interstratified with the Eocene deposits.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

More or less extensive sheets of this material, in many instances 319 interstratified with sedimentary beds, and especially with the strata laid down in Tertiary lakes, or separating lava-flows, occur widely throughout the Pacific mountains.

From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell

Sometimes we went through deep cuttings in the red clay, close enough for me to notice it was interstratified with waterworn but angular quartz peebles.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

Near these cliffs the slate-clay and reddish limestone are interstratified, and form a bold rocky point, in which the strata dip to the N.E. at an angle of 20°.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin

The beds are horizontal, and according to Brown and Sawkins, three layers of greenstone, partly intrusive and partly contemporaneous, are interstratified with the sedimentary deposits.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various