- 1. n. Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. Source: opted
- 2. n. Want of parallelism between strata in contact. Source: opted
- 3. 1. Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. South. 2. (Geol.) Want of parallelism between strata in contact. 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. Source: webster
- 4. n. Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. n. Want of parallelism between strata in contact. Source: ecdict
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