unstratified

American  

[uhn-strat-uh-fahyd] / ʌnˈstræt əˌfaɪd /

adjective

1. not stratified; not arranged in strata or layers.

   unstratified rocks.

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unstratified British  

/ ʌnˈstrætɪˌfaɪd /

adjective

1. (esp of igneous rocks and rock formations) not occurring in distinct layers or strata; not stratified

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Etymology

Origin of unstratified

First recorded in 1765–75; un- ¹ + stratify ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Further observation showed that stratified tumuli occupy a certain fixed position with regard to other works, which the unstratified tumuli do not.

From The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe by Bartlett, John Russell

They lie confusedly bedded in a red unstratified marl, and some of them can be traced to the Welsh hills from twenty to fifty miles distant.

From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel

Neither products of the volcanoes, whether extinct or in action, nor the stratified or unstratified rocks, have exhibited a sample of that combination of metallic and earthy substances which the meteoric stones present.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various

The rock is compact unstratified limestone, in which so many of the famous caverns of the world are found.

From Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by Browne, G. F. (George Forrest)

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 Hitchcock, Edward