Meanings
- not comparableInvolving or relating to the process of depositing.
Thus a coal stratum found in one locality may not be exactly on the same stratigraphic level as another found not far distant, but both were laid down during a period when the general depositive conditions were the same; […]
1916, Wilber Stout, Geology of Southern Ohio
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