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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The thickness of the entire series varies from 4000 to as much as 12,000 feet, according as it contains more or less of interstratified igneous rocks.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson
The same beds are also seen at Builth, in Radnorshire, where they are interstratified with volcanic matter.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
It is a truly eruptive rock, occurring in intrusive bosses, or in beds interstratified with gneiss and mica-schist, and owes its various shades of green to the presence of copper.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan
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 James Geikie
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.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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