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These mid-Palaeozoic formations are unconformably overlain by the Carboniferous-Permian Pillahuinco Group.
Deposition of the unconformably overlying Red Bay Group was terminated in latest Lochkovian times by renewed sinistral strike-slip faulting.
These extrusive rocks are tilted and rest unconformably upon metamorphosed limestone, shale, and slate.
In Tertiary time, the Batain nappes were unconformably overlain by carbonate and elastic rocks.
These are unconformably overlain by Lower Carboniferous limestones of the Alapaevsk unit and cut by a Permian granite.
The Moine rocks are overlain unconformably by post-Caledonian, Old Red Sandstone sedimentary rocks.
Lothagam is a more restricted area and its strata are older-late Miocene to early Pliocene, overlain unconformably by Quaternary sands, gravels, and coquinas.
Basement rocks consist of Tortonian volcanic rocks unconformably overlain by Messinian marine marls, coral-reef limestones and carbonate breccias.
The Stonehaven Group lies at the base of the Old Red Sandstone in the Midland Valley of Scotland and sits unconformably on the Highland Border Complex.
Archean metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks are unconformably overlain by Proterozoic rocks of the Huronian Supergroup.
It lies unconformably upon steeply inclined flagstones, the interpretation of which is a matter of continuing debate.
Seismoacoustic records show that in some places they are lying unconformably on the Yoldia Sea deposits.
Devonian conglomerates composed of sandstones and pelites appear in the area, and Carboniferous marine formations are unconformably overlain in sequence.
The Lower Old Red Sandstone is unconformably overlain by Upper Old Red Sandstone, where the Upper Old Red Sandstone is tilted close to the Highland Boundary Fault.
The area is underlain by the flat-lying Miocene age Browns Park Formation which unconformably overlies the Eocene Green River and Wasatch Formations.
It is unconformably overlain by gravel-rich slope-wash deposits.
Devonian sandstone that lies unconformably on the Archaean basement rocks.
Examples from Classical Literature
A greatly deformed and metamorphosed older series is unconformably overlaid by a great thickness of younger strata.
Upon this foundation rests unconformably a series of marls and limestones of Eocene and early Oligocene age.
This series is overlain unconformably by a younger quartzite of similar character, and itself rests upon the crystalline schists.
At Llandovery they rest unconformably upon Ordovician rocks, but in many other places no unconformity is traceable.
They also rest unconformably upon the Ordovician rocks in this area.
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