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Unconformable
Unconformable Un`con*form"a*ble, a. 1. Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming. Moral evil is an action unconformable to it [the rule of our duty]. --I. Watts. 2. (Geol.) Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata. -- Un`con*form"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`con*form"a*bly, adv.

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- An unconformity is a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock m****es or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition...
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- the closure of the Iapetus Ocean. Silurian clastic sedimentary rocks unconformably overly the ophiolite and granite intruded the area during the Devonian...
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- Sarmatia, separated by shallow seas. The sediments deposited in these unconformably overlay Precambrian ba****t rocks. The lack of co****-grained sediments...
- Eday Group that is up to 800 metres (870 yd) thick in places. It lies unconformably upon steeply inclined flagstones, the interpretation of which is a matter...
- Cretaceous (≈90-100 million years ago (Ma)) to Miocene (≈5 Ma), which lie unconformably on a pre-Cretaceous igneous ba****t. Where the unconformity corresponds...
- Basin, or Caroni Syncline, consisting of Tertiary sedimentary rocks unconformably overlying Jur****ic and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks. South of this basin...
- accompanied by John Playfair and Sir James Hall, the clearest example of an unconformable relationship between two sets of sedimentary strata that involved a...
- younger rocks. Carboniferous rocks appear in small faulted tracts, unconformable on the Silurian, on the s****s of the Solway Firth. They are best developed...