Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In geology, the process or property of forming a member in a conformably stratified series of rocks.

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  • verb Present participle of interbed.

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Examples

  • Although shale is common, there is a mixture and interbedding of geologic materials.

    Ecoregions of Tennessee (EPA) 2009

  • Although shale is common, there is a mixture and interbedding of geologic materials, including cherts, siltstone, sandstone, quartzose limestone, and in Alabama some slate, quartzite, and metasiltstone.

    Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA) 2008

  • The economic methodism, the mosaic interbedding, the architectonic structure of it all, a part and parcel of

    Cyropaedia 2007

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