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- verb geology To
interpenetrate in long alternating strips like clasped fingers.
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Examples
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However, poorly drained sands and a few peat deposits up to six feet thick also occur, and interfinger with well-drained sites.
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The boundary between the Southeastern Plains (65) and ecoregions 45 and 64 occurs at the Fall Line where the metamorphic rocks of the Piedmont and the sedimentary rocks of the Coastal Plain interfinger.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The Line roughly separates uplands with moderately slow streams from much flatter lowland with sluggish streams; it also roughly divides hard metamorphic rocks from younger, less resistant sedimentary rocks that interfinger with them.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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At the current southern limit, the mineralized horizons are narrower and interfinger with ash tuff units.
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Ecoregion 63f’s boundary with the Piedmont Uplands (64c) occurs at the Fall Line where sedimentary rocks interfinger with the older, metamorphic rocks of the Piedmont.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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