gradational

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Tidal flat deposits typically contain gradational sediments and may include multi-directional ripple marks.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

I have had grand success this morning in tracing gradational steps by which the peacock tail has been developed: I quite feel as if I had seen a long line of its progenitors.

From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James

This slightly obscure phrase may be paraphrased, "the gradational stages being of service to the organism."

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

To what extent are the gradational links really wanting in the living creation or in the fossil world, and how far may we expect to discover such as are missing by future research?

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir