unconformability

English

Etymology

un- +‎ conformability

Noun

unconformability (uncountable)

  1. (geology) The quality or state of being unconformable.
  2. (geology) Lack of parallelism between one series of strata and another, especially when due to a disturbance of the position of the earlier strata before the latter were deposited.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unconformability in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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