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
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 Sir Charles Lyell
Etypic, -al, ē-tip′ik, -al, adj. unconformable to type.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
It is admitted that when two formations are unconformable their fossil remains almost always differ considerably.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
