intertongue
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editintertongue (third-person singular simple present intertongues, present participle intertonguing, simple past and past participle intertongued)
- (geology, of strata) To interlock.
- 1916, Lloyd William Stephenson, Geology and ground waters of northeastern Arkansas, page 149:
- The gently undulating interstream timbered lands border the shallow valleys and intertongue irregularly with the prairie lands.
- 1977, John Adam Dorr, Deformation and Deposition Between a Foreland Uplift and an Impinging Thrust Belt: Hoback Basin, Wyoming:
- North of Jack Creek, where the Chappo Member intertongues with the Hoback Formation, the Hoback thickens to 2,000 m.