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

This series, about 20,000 feet in thickness, is, as before stated, unconformable to that last mentioned; it consists in great part of gneiss of a reddish tint with orthoclase feldspar.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

It often happens that in the interval between the deposition of two sets of unconformable strata, the inferior rock has not only been denuded, but drilled by perforating shells.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

She still vibrated to the feeling of unconformable forces in the old house.

From The Abandoned Room by Camp, Wadsworth