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What does interbedded mean?

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Adjective
  1. (geology) Occurring between beds of rock.
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Il is composed of gray, greenish shales interbedded with silty mudstones and siltstones.
The section is dominated by quartzose grey and pink sandstone, interbedded with red-orange mudstones.
The presence of locally interbedded airfall tuffs implies subaerial eruption.
North of the Burd Gol zone there is a small area of interbedded marine mudstone and limestone which reportedly contain Carboniferous fossils.
The Yellow Cat Member contains a basal calcrete with interbedded sands and clays and extends upward to a prominent sandstone unit.
Near the top of the succession blue-grey silty calcareous mudstones are interbedded with subordinate graded sandstones.

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