false bedding

noun

1. another name for cross bedding

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

It is sometimes called false bedding, for the sloping bands do not mark strata laid down horizontally at the bottom of the sea, but a current has laid down layers in a sloping way,—it may be just over the edge of a sandbank.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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