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Nonparallel

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations.  Synonyms: in series, serial.
2.
(of e.g. lines or paths) not parallel; converging.






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"Nonparallel" Quotes from Famous Books



... movements to which the uplift or depression was due involved tilting or folding of the earlier strata, so that the strata are now nonparallel as well as unconformable. In Figure 201, for example, the record includes deposition, uplift, and tilting of a; erosion, depression, the deposit of b; and finally the uplift which has brought the rocks to open air and permitted the dissection by which the ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton

... which the uplift or depression was due involved tilting or folding of the earlier strata, so that the strata are now nonparallel as well as unconformable. In Figure 201, for example, the record includes deposition, uplift, and tilting of a; erosion, depression, the deposit of b; and finally the uplift which has brought the rocks to open air and permitted the dissection by which the unconformity is revealed. From this ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton



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