unstratified
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of unstratified
First recorded in 1765–75; un- 1 + stratify ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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It is unstratified, and so resistant that it is everywhere worn into smooth, rounded surfaces, instead of being splintered and shattered.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
All the unstratified rocks have certainly been fused, and probably all the stratified rocks originated from the unstratified, and have been modified by water and heat.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
But all underclays agree in two points: they are all unstratified.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
From this arrangement they have been termed “stratified,” in contrast to the unstratified or igneous series.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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