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What does interbedded mean?

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Adjective
  1. (geology) Occurring between beds of rock.
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Those sections expose concretionary mudstones interbedded with thinner quartz sandstones, limestones, and marl.
The presence of locally interbedded airfall tuffs implies subaerial eruption.
The volcanic strata consist of sheet-like flows of andesite, dacite, basalts, and trachybasalts that are interbedded with agglomerates and tuffs.
Il is composed of gray, greenish shales interbedded with silty mudstones and siltstones.
North of the Burd Gol zone there is a small area of interbedded marine mudstone and limestone which reportedly contain Carboniferous fossils.
Under a thin Jurassic conglomerate a Palaeozoic succession of interbedded reddened sandstone, mudstone and basalt was preserved.

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