unconformity
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It echoes James Playfair’s description of the “abyss of time” he glimpsed while viewing a strata unconformity at Siccar Point in 1788, when geology was first emerging as a science.
From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2019
These desert-formed sandstones sit above an unconformity, and this suggests that after a long period with a humid climate, the climate became drier and wind became the dominant agent shaping the environment at Gale Crater.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2018
She’s revising a manuscript describing an unconformity in the sedimentary layers of Mount Sharp, within the Gale crater, a record of the alternating wet-dry cycles on the planet.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 29, 2017
Figure 8.8 The great angular unconformity in the Grand Canyon, Arizona.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
This unconformity is generally found about the same horizon in the continental Culm areas, and it occurs again in the western part of the English Culm.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
