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Unconformable   Listen
adjective
Unconformable  adj.  
1.
Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming. "Moral evil is an action unconformable to it (the rule of our duty)."
2.
(Geol.) Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata.





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"Unconformable" Quotes from Famous Books



... but the peculiarities of the landscape are exaggerated in Abyssinia. Many of the trachytic beds are brecciated and highly columnar; sedimentary beds are also interstratified with those of volcanic origin. The Magdala group is unconformable to that of Ashangi in some places. A still more recent group of volcanic rocks appears to occur in the neighbourhood of Senafe, consisting of amorphous masses of trachyte, often so fine-grained and compact ...
— Volcanoes: Past and Present • Edward Hull


Words linked to "Unconformable" :   inconsistent


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