unconformability

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. The quality or state of being unconformable.
2. Lack of parallelism between one series of strata and another, especially when due to a disturbance of the position of the earlier strata before the latter were deposited.

Synonyme

discordance

non-conformity

unconformilty

Etymologie (Englisch)

From un- + conformability.