interstratify

[in-ter-strat-uh-fahy]

verb (used without object)

interstratified, interstratifying 

1. to lie in interposed or alternate strata.

verb (used with object)

interstratified, interstratifying 

1. to interlay with or interpose between other strata.

2. to arrange in alternate strata.

interstratify

/ ˌɪntəˈstrætɪˌfaɪ /

verb

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

Other Word Forms

• interstratification noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of interstratify¹

First recorded in 1815–25; inter- + stratify

Example Sentences

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.

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The Hythe beds are interstratified thin limestones and sandstones; the former are bluish-grey in colour, compact and hard, with a certain amount of quartz and glauconite.

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There are several series of parallel beds, interstratified with quartzite and schist, the most important being the “main reef” series.

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The first of these divisions represents the plutonic, intrusive or subsequent phase of eruptivity; the second marks the volcanic, interstratified or contemporaneous phase.

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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.

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