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 Geikie, James

He pointed out that the strata of these two groups were unconformable, and must have been the deposits of different seas at distant periods of time.

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

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