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Another word for unconformity

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Noun
      1. Lack of congruence.
      2. The state or quality of being incongruous.
      3. Something incongruous.
      1. To have or express an opinion different from a prevailing or official position; disagree.
      2. To reach a conclusion contrary to the majority of the judges deciding a case; render a minority opinion.
      3. Difference of opinion or feeling; disagreement.
      1. The quality or condition of being unlike or dissimilar.
      2. An instance of disparity or unlikeness:
      3. A degree or amount by which things differ:
      1. Refusal or failure to conform to accepted standards, conventions, rules, or laws.
      2. An instance of this:
      3. Refusal to accept or conform to the doctrines, usage, or polity of the Church of England.
    See also:

    revolution

    inconsistency

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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.

  • This unconformity is generally found about the same horizon in the continental Culm areas, and it occurs again in the western part of the English Culm.

  • 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.

  • Upon the folded slates and schists which constitute these inliers the Devonian rests with marked unconformity; but north of the ridge of Condroz Ordovician and Silurian beds make their appearance.

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