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What does unconformity mean?

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Noun
  1. (nonstandard) a lack of conformity
  2. (geology) a gap in time in rock strata, where erosion occurs while deposition slows or stops
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You still get men wearing hats now but it's almost a sign of unconformity for a young man to wear a hat apart from baseball hats.
Both overlie a pronounced angular unconformity and both are predominantly fluvial deposits.
At the base of the erosional hollow, an inlier of Jurassic rocks crops out below the late Cimmerian unconformity.
That unconformity is overlain by sandstones of the Puentelles Formation, dated as late Kasimovian based on its fossil flora.
Extensional faults are planed by a regional unconformity that is overstepped by Permian to Cretaceous strata.
Data on a systemic boundary unconformity on the west Newfoundland shelf are more problematic.

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