interbed, v.
(ɪntəˈbɛd)
[inter- 1 a.]
trans. To embed amongst or between, to interstratify.
| c 1806 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. (1941) I. 252 These two islands..were intermingled with the water, I might say interbedded and interveined with it. 1858 Geikie Hist. Boulder xi. 208 The strata interbedded among the Coal-seams. 1879 Rutley Study Rocks xiii. 270 Crystalline schists, with which rocks serpentine is very commonly associated and interbedded. |
Hence interˈbedded, interstratified; interˈbedding, interstratification.
| 1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks iv. 116 The highest inter⁓bedded igneous rocks. 1879 Rutley Study Rocks iv. 32 In the interbedding of lava-flows. |