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Definition of Reassorted

1. reassort [v] - See also: reassort

Literary usage of Reassorted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1885)
"... during which the lower boulder-clay in certain places was by water reassorted into sand, gravel, and mud, and redeposited with its boulders water-worn, ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"... they were partly filled up, new channels had to be cut, and hence a great thickness of the original superficial deposits has been removed or reassorted. ..."

3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1895)
"... gritty Old Red Sandstone partially reassorted f) 36J We quote the following summary from the carefully written "Note" of the minority ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1877)
"These are now found floating on the slopes of the reassorted gravels, and enclosed in si ratified clays, the character of the shells in which prove the ..."

5. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"... ground-swell, and marine currents, were thereby more or less washed down and reassorted. Coast-ice, no doubt, still formed along the shores, ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"This beach-deposit, which now forms part of the low cliff, consists of reassorted Boulder Clay, together with sand and shingle. The Freshwater Bed presents ..."

7. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"... and consists therefore chiefly of fine rock-flour or rock-meal, reassorted and deposited in water without having undergone much chemical alteration. ..."

8. Botanical Features of North American Deserts by Daniel Trembly MacDougal (1908)
"The older and higher may be said to be the initial slopes, and the materials washed out from them and reassorted, distributed, and laid down at lower levels ..."

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