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

Along the Atlantic coast the Mesozoic peneplain may be traced shoreward to where it disappears from view beneath an unconformable cover of early Tertiary marine strata.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon

In the grounds of the Admiralty House curious instances of unconformable strata are laid bare in old quarries.

From The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II by Dundonald, Thomas Barnes Cochrane, Earl of

The older half of this Laurentian series is unconformable to the newer portion of the same.

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