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What does unconformable mean?

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In this transect, the contact between the Carboniferous strata and the volcanic sequence appears to be an unconformable sedimentary contact.
Who henceforth would receive her save those, unconformed and unconformable, sentenced to sin in this realm of blackness?
Although usually conformable to the oolite, it is sometimes, as in the Jura, unconformable.
The complete biological contrasts between the fossil contents of unconformable strata are sufficiently explicable.
However, of greatest interest is the unconformable contact between the Wiens Formation and Neptune Group.
Strata are said to be unconformable when they do not lie in regular, parallel sequence.

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