Unconformity Synonyms

Unconformity Sentence Examples

• A great unconformity separates the Table Mountain and Ecca series.

• Its distribution is very different from that of the Upper Cretaceous, and there is a great and widespread unconformity between them.

• From the Permian to the Lias the sequence in the central Himalaya shows no sign of a break, nor has any unconformity been proved between the Liassic beds and the overlying Spiti shales, which contain fossils of Middle and Upper Jurassic age.

• On the Pacific coast the marine Eocene lies west of the Sierras, and between it and the Cretaceous there is a general, and often a great, unconformity.

• No certain representative of the Dingle Beds has been traced elsewhere throughout the south of Ireland, where the Old Red Sandstone succeeds the uptilted Silurian strata with striking unconformity.