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Unstratified
Unstratified Un*strat"i*fied, a. (Geol.) Not stratified; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata.

Meaning of Unstratified from wikipedia

- Glaciology (from Latin glacies 'frost, ice' and Ancient Gr**** λόγος (logos) 'subject matter'; lit. 'study of ice') is the scientific study of glaciers...
- being reworked by mel****er. Till is characteristically unsorted and unstratified, and is not usually consolidated. Most till consists predominantly of...
- Boulder clay is an unsorted agglomeration of clastic sediment that is unstratified and structureless and contains gravel of various sizes, shapes, and compositions...
- matrix, it is called a paraconglomerate. Paraconglomerates are also often unstratified and can contain more matrix than gravel clasts. If the gravel clasts...
- Indiana to North Dakota, consists of till plains, that is, sheets of unstratified drift. The plains are 30, 50 or even 100 ft (up to 30 m) thick covering...
- brief retreat and readvance of the ice sheet onto the delta deposited unstratified material there, creating a rare hybrid structure called "kame moraine"...
- artefacts and other remains in their original depositional context, cf. unstratified. jar burial Inhumation of whole human remains in a ceramic vessel, as...
- glacial till deposited primarily by glacial ice. Glacial till, in turn, is unstratified and unsorted debris ranging in size from silt-sized glacial flour to...
- by glacial mel****er. Drift is often subdivided into (unsorted and) unstratified drift (glacial till) that forms moraines and stratified drift (glaciolacustrine...
- remained consistent since the invasion, which has been seen before in unstratified lakes. Runoff caused by the growth of agriculture in the surrounding...