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

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Etymology

Origin of interstratify

First recorded in 1815–25; inter- + stratify

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Example Sentences

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interstratified

Coalmeasures, a series of sandstones and shales with which are interstratified the seams of coal, varying in thickness from six inches to as much in one instance as thirty feet.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Peter Gray

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

Then came a thick envelope of sand, sometimes interstratified with mud; and, finally, muddy matter prevailed. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers

Many of the trachytic beds are brecciated and highly columnar; sedimentary beds are also interstratified with those of volcanic origin.

From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull

Showers of ashes, thrown out by some of the last eruptions of the Eifel volcanoes, fell during the deposition of this fluviatile silt, and were interstratified with it.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

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