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Definition of Disconformity

Disconformity
Disconformity Dis`con*form"i*ty, n. Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement. Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves. --Milton. Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind. --Hakewill.

Meaning of Disconformity from wikipedia

- of pebbles derived from the underlying rock. Disconformity at Horni Pocernice, Czech Republic Disconformity (at the hammer) between underlying Mississippian...
- older rocks. The older rock dips at a different angle from the younger. Disconformity: the contact between younger and older beds is marked by visible, irregular...
- Kasimovian covers a period of globally low sea level, which has resulted in disconformities within many sequences of this age. This has created difficulties in...
- legislature. Other than Romanones, who exculpated the actions of the monarch, disconformity towards the Primo de Rivera dictatorship notwithstanding, no other legislator...
- contrast to the later layers, ie. they are igneous or metamorphic rocks. Disconformity if both the early beds and the later beds are parallel to each other...
- All the tools come from the Busidama Formation, which lies above a disconformity, or missing layer, which would have been from 2.9 to 2.7 mya. The oldest...
- Kaibab Limestone with the Moenkopi Formation is an erosional disconformity. This disconformity exhibits little relief and is identified by marked differences...
- ring is about 6.2 kilometres (3.9 mi) in radius around the central disconformity. Ring depression The ring depression is the result of the displacement...
- the formations between the top of the Glen Dean Limestone up to the disconformity where it meets the Mansfield Limestone.[full citation needed] The Buffalo...
- composed of m****ive limestone beds. Geologists discern signs of erosion (a disconformity) between the end of deposition of the Redwall Limestone and the beginning...