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false bedding

British  

noun

  1. another name for cross bedding

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They vary in texture from a fine-grained compact oolite to a coarse-grained rock composed of angular or rounded fragments, and they commonly exhibit strongly marked false bedding.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

This structure is called false bedding; the layers or lamin� not coinciding with the planes of stratification.

From Geology by Geikie, James