Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being interstratified, or of lying between other strata; in geology, the condition of a bed, stratum, or member of an aqueous deposit, with reference to the overlying and underlying beds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) Stratification among or between other layers or strata; also, that which is interstratified.
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- noun geology
stratification among or between otherlayers orstrata
Etymologies
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Examples
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A change of conditions so that mud or sand is washed in or so that calcareous materials are deposited, followed by a recurrence of salt-precipitation, results in the interstratification of salt beds with shales, sandstones, and limestones.
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The interstratification of loam and volcanic ejectamenta was probably occasioned by the fluviatile mud having gradually enveloped the cones of loose scoriae after they were completely formed.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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Zilhão J, d'Errico F, Bordes J-G, Lenoble A, Texier J-P, et al. (2006) Analysis of Aurignacian interstratification at the Châtelperronian-type site and implications for the behavioral modernity of Neandertals.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne-Laure Daniau et al. 2010
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Zilhão J, d'Errico F, Bordes J-G, Lenoble A, Texier J-P, et al. (2006) Analysis of Aurignacian interstratification at the Châtelperronian-type site and implications for the behavioral modernity of Neandertals.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne-Laure Daniau et al. 2010
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Zilhão J, d'Errico F, Bordes J-G, Lenoble A, Texier J-P, et al. (2006) Analysis of Aurignacian interstratification at the Châtelperronian-type site and implications for the behavioral modernity of Neandertals.
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Zilhão J, d'Errico F, Bordes J-G, Lenoble A, Texier J-P, et al. (2006) Analysis of Aurignacian interstratification at the Châtelperronian-type site and implications for the behavioral modernity of Neandertals.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne-Laure Daniau et al. 2010
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