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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unconformity \un`conform"ity\, n.
1. want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. --south.
1913 webster
2. geol. want of parallelism between strata in contact.
1913 webster
note: with some authors unconformity is equivalent to
unconformability; but it is often used more broadly,
for example, to include the case when the parallelism
of strata once conformable has been disturbed by
faulting and the like.
1913 webster
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