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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having cross-or false bedding. See false bedding, under false.

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Examples

  • Lord Howe Island has sedimentary deposits of Pleistocene and Holocene (Recent) age, including cross-bedded calcarenite with intercalated soil horizons, lagoonal deposits, a single sand dune, and alluvium.

    Lord Howe Island Group, Australia 2008

  • But even if these forms turn out to be true foraminifers – and Arz et al 2004 have shown that there are a few reworked specimens in that core interval – then those occur in a cross-bedded sandstone and are, therefore, by definition reworked, and cannot be used for biostratigraphy.

    Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006

  • They were cross-bedded, eroded and very cool looking.

    My Trip « worlds in a grain of sand 2005

  • There was another formation present in places, the famous Navajo formation, which was cross-bedded white sand stone.

    My Trip Andrew 2005

  • There was another formation present in places, the famous Navajo formation, which was cross-bedded white sand stone.

    My Trip « worlds in a grain of sand 2005

  • There was another formation present in places, the famous Navajo formation, which was cross-bedded white sand stone.

    Archive 2005-03-01 Andrew 2005

  • They were cross-bedded, eroded and very cool looking.

    My Trip Andrew 2005

  • I'm pretty sure that they were the same formation, red, cross-bedded, mounds, etc.

    Archive 2005-03-01 Andrew 2005

  • I'm pretty sure that they were the same formation, red, cross-bedded, mounds, etc.

    My Trip Andrew 2005

  • They were cross-bedded, eroded and very cool looking.

    Archive 2005-03-01 Andrew 2005

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