- The
significance of
angular unconformity (see below) was
shown by
James Hutton, who
found examples of Hutton's
Unconformity at
Jedburgh in 1787 and at...
- The term
Great Unconformity is
frequently applied to the
unconformity observed by John
Wesley Powell in the
Grand Canyon in 1869. It is an exceptional...
- and
Unconformity.
Materials at - The
Unconformity (Festival) (Queenstown, Tas.) (2016), The
Unconformity : [collection of brochures], The
Unconformity, retrieved...
- Hutton, such an
unconformity provided evidence for his
Plutonist theories of
uniformitarianism and the age of Earth. An
unconformity is a
break in the...
- and gneisses) (2) the
Eparchean unconformity (Quartzose
sandstones overlying the
granite with a
distinct unconformity) (3)
Puranas (a
general name for...
- The
Taconic unconformity is a
major unconformity created during the
Taconic orogeny,
exposed from
eastern New York
State to the
Gaspe peninsula. The orogeny...
-
Phanerozoic examples exist.
Phanerozoic unconformity-related
deposits occur in
Proterozoic metasediments below an
unconformity at the base of
overlying Phanerozoic...
-
metres of
Ordovician aged rock (see
geology below),
capped by a
regional unconformity of
erosion and non-deposition to the
Quaternary period.
Rivers and lakes...
-
coast of Scotland. It is
famous in the
history of
geology for Hutton's
Unconformity found in 1788,
which James Hutton regarded as
conclusive proof of his...
- In geology, a
subaerial unconformity is a
surface that
displays signs of
erosion by
processes that
commonly occur on the surface.
These processes generating...
