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What does unconformably mean?

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Adverb
  1. In an unconformable manner
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At Llandovery they rest unconformably upon Ordovician rocks, but in many other places no unconformity is traceable.
This series is overlain unconformably by a younger quartzite of similar character, and itself rests upon the crystalline schists.
The Moine rocks are overlain unconformably by post-Caledonian, Old Red Sandstone sedimentary rocks.
Deposition of the unconformably overlying Red Bay Group was terminated in latest Lochkovian times by renewed sinistral strike-slip faulting.
A greatly deformed and metamorphosed older series is unconformably overlaid by a great thickness of younger strata.
In Tertiary time, the Batain nappes were unconformably overlain by carbonate and elastic rocks.

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