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

But some of these same porphyries are partially unconformable, as b, and may lead us to suspect that the others also, notwithstanding their appearance of interstratification, have been forcibly injected.

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

These, it will be seen, are horizontal, and lie in what is termed "unconformable stratification" on the more ancient series.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

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