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Meaning of "unconformity"
unconformity (noun) - In geology, a break in the rock record that is not due to folding or faulting, but rather erosion or non-deposition
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- A lack of conformity.
- A gap in the stratigraphic record at a site, resulting from erosion having outpaced deposition over the interval in question.
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An unconformity marks the top of this formation.
The water resurges on the basal unconformity.
Now an unconformity is a very interesting thing.
The surface stratum resulting is called an unconformity.
A fourth unconformity was created by a period of erosion.
You come to something they have called an unconformity.
A regional unconformity likely caps the platform succession.
It is also called nondepositional unconformity or pseudoconformity.
An unconformity represents time during which no sediments were preserved in a region.
The absence of rocks is called an unconformity.
Unconformity uranium deposits.
Such a hiatus is called an unconformity.
A type of unconformity in geology.
It is thus unclear how much time might be represented by the unconformity.
Corrected the unconformity that was displayed when generating a budget.
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There is local evidence of weathering of the gneiss beneath the unconformity.
Erosive unconformity marks the deposition of espinhaço volcanic and sedimentary rocks.
Whole rhodoliths encrusted on andesite pebbles occur above this unconformity.
An unconformity has been reported from many locations in Iran.
This is one of the richest intersections ever reported above the unconformity.
There is an unconformity at the Pliocene base.
The trapping mechanism for these pools is a result of stratigraphic facies changes and unconformity traps.
There is an unconformity where Silurian strata were exposed to erosion and are missing.
The Campanian follows after a pronounced unconformity.
An unconformity separates the Cenozoic conglomerate from the underlying graywacke.
The record of the Cenozoic activity begins above this unconformity.
The base appears to coincide with the unconformity atop Precambrian basement rocks.
At the original type location in Denmark the base of the Selandian is an unconformity.
There is an unconformity where the Karoo rocks of the basin overlie much older rocks.
New research ties together this burst with an ancient mystery called the Great Unconformity.
Some people have said that the Great Unconformity boundary here represents half of billion years.
A particular formation of interest is the Masca Unconformity.
Geologists have found an unconformity between Precambrian and Paleozoic units.
Unconformity Okay they are suspicious of Outsiders so let us be smart about Elfwood.
The valley formation is dated to the Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene uplift unconformity.
The Great Unconformity has an irregular hilly surface.
This is referred to as Eparchaean Unconformity.
An unconformity separates lower units from Jurassic calcareous rocks and the Senonian Dumitor Flysch.
Erosion returned, forming a third unconformity.
An angular unconformity therefore exists along the anticline 's crest.
In certain areas, the contact is conformable in others, there is an unconformity.
However, an unconformity in the sediment sequence might make this analysis difficult.
This is a sharp lithologic contract, but no physical evidence of an unconformity was noted.
Examples of this type of trap are an unconformity trap, a lens trap and a reef trap.
These deposits occur below, across and immediately above the unconformity.
For example, if a fault were truncated by an unconformity, and that unconformity cut by a dike.
The primary controlling factor for these reservoirs is the pre-Cretaceous unconformity surface.
It 's called an angular unconformity and geologists soon found angular uncomforities all over the place.
This tool is also very useful in detecting an unconformity in the dam 's behaviour.
Chris wanted to show me a small patch of cliffside famous to geologists as Hutton 's Unconformity.
