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

It is admitted that when two formations are unconformable their fossil remains almost always differ considerably.

From The Student's Elements 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

Often the earth movements to which the uplift or depression was due involved tilting or folding of the earlier strata, so that the strata are now nonparallel as well as unconformable.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon