unconformable
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I’m always going to talk about what makes people unconformable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
It is critical at a time of public health crisis to be aware of the line between panic and preparation, to speak tough and unconformable truths without being alarmist.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 9, 2020
When one set of rocks is found resting on the upturned edges of a lower set, the former are said to be unconformable to the latter.
From Geology by James Geikie
The thickness of the more modern and unconformable beds is about 750 feet, of which the upper 200 feet consist of Newer Pliocene strata, while the lower are Older Pliocene.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
The complete biological contrasts between the fossil contents of unconformable strata are sufficiently explicable.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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