Crossword-Solution: UNCONFORMITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Unconformity | n. | Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. |
| Unconformity | n. | Want of parallelism between strata in contact. |
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| a buried erosion surface separating two rock masses | 1 answer |
| ectopia | 12 answers |
| Exception | 20 answers |
| Eccentricity | 21 answers |
| dissidence | 26 answers |
| Condi-tions | 34 answers |
| Independence | 36 answers |
| BUT ___ | 53 answers |
| Individuality | 54 answers |
| in-consequence | 63 answers |
| Peculiarity | 76 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with UNCONFORMITY (5)
From Devon and Dorsetshire to Yorkshire all these divisions, observes Professor Ramsay, are constant; and from top to bottom we cannot assert that anywhere there is actual unconformity between any two subdivisions, whether of the larger or smaller kind.
UNCONFORMITY Strata deposited one upon, another in an unbroken succession are said to be conformable.
Separated from it by an unconformity which does not appear in Figure 207, the lower division, seven thousand feet thick, consists chiefly of massive reddish sandstones with seven or more sheets of lava interbedded.
With few exceptions the Carboniferous strata rest on those of the Devonian without any marked unconformity; the one period passed quietly into the other, with no great physical disturbances.
Where the coal is in one series and the oil in another, separated by unconformity (indicating different conditions of development), the principle may not hold, even though there is close geographical association.
Quotes with UNCONFORMITY (1)
Push up some mountains. Cut them down. Drown the land under the sea. Push up some more mountains. Cut them down. Push up a third set of mountains, and let the river cut through them. “Unconformity” is the geologic term for an old, eroded land surface buried under younger rock layers. Put your outspread hand over the Carlin Canyon, Nevada unconformity and your fingers span roughly forty million years- the time that it took to bevel down the first set of mountains and deposit t…