The significance of angular unconformity (see below) was shown by James Hutton, who found examples of Hutton's Unconformity at Jedburgh in 1787 and at...
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and Unconformity. Materials at - The Unconformity (Festival) (Queenstown, Tas.) (2016), The Unconformity : [collection of brochures], The Unconformity, retrieved...
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The term Great Unconformity is frequently applied to the unconformity observed by John Wesley Powell in the Grand Canyon in 1869. It is an exceptional...
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Hutton, such an unconformity provided evidence for his Plutonist theories of uniformitarianism and the age of Earth. An unconformity is a break in the...
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Siccar Point (section Hutton's Unconformity)
coast of Scotland. It is famous in the history of geology for Hutton's Unconformity found in 1788, which James Hutton regarded as conclusive proof of his...
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The Taconic unconformity is a major unconformity created during the Taconic orogeny, exposed from eastern New York State to the Gaspe peninsula. The orogeny...
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Uranium ore (section Unconformity-related deposits)
Phanerozoic examples exist. Phanerozoic unconformity-related deposits occur in Proterozoic metasediments below an unconformity at the base of overlying Phanerozoic...
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The Carlin Unconformity or Carlin Trend is a geologic feature in northeastern Nevada which represents a period of erosion or non-deposition likely associated...
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Unconformity List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes "Unconformity". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 28, 2024. Ng, Alan. "Unconformity"...
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The "Taconic Unconformity" is an angular unconformity exposed from eastern New York State to the Gaspe peninsula...
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Oak Ridges Moraine (section Unconformity)
metres of Ordovician aged rock (see geology below), capped by a regional unconformity of erosion and non-deposition to the Quaternary period. Rivers and lakes...
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and gneisses) (2) the Eparchean unconformity (Quartzose sandstones overlying the granite with a distinct unconformity) (3) Puranas (a general name for...
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Unkar Group (section Unconformities)
Group is a prominent angular unconformity, which is part of the Great Unconformity. The surface of this angular unconformity truncates dipping strata comprising...
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Mesón Group (redirect from Tilcarian unconformity)
Mesón Group (Spanish: Grupo Mesón) is a Cambrian to Early Ordovician sedimentary group located in the Argentine Northwest and nearby parts of Bolivia....
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The morphology of some of these areas has been preserved: it is an unconformity beneath a cover of marine sedimentary rocks. The Campanian was introduced...
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Retrieved 3 May 2011. "Hutton's Unconformity". Isle of Arran Heritage Museum. 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2017. "Hutton's Unconformity – Lochranza, Isle of Arran...
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Subgroup Unconformity Cryogenian Umberatana Group Yerelina Subgroup Toorrowangee Group Teamsters Creek Subgroup Upalinna Subgroup Unconformity Euriowie...
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Eagle Ford Group (section Eagle Ford unconformity)
of a middle Cretaceous unconformity. Currently, the Sabine Uplift is in the subsurface, and the middle Cretaceous unconformity is not seen because it...
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The Mid-Carboniferous unconformity is an unconformity located in many countries, such as England (Namurian), Thailand, The United States and more. It...
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bounded on the top and bottom by unconformities, where the lower unconformity truncates dike A and the upper unconformity truncates dike B (which penetrates...
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well as thin beds of sandstone. The Knox lies beneath a unconformity known as the Knox Unconformity. There is well-developed karst topography at the top...
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In geology, a subaerial unconformity is a surface that displays signs of erosion by processes that commonly occur on the surface. These processes generating...
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record. This gap is part of a more generalized gap called the Great Unconformity. About 510 million years ago, the granite was again subject to deposition...
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found in clinoforms, in a pinching-out sedimentary structure, under an unconformity or in a structure created by the creep of an evaporite. In a salt dome...
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about 1 billion years (1,000 million years), and is named the Great Unconformity. Besides its occurrence in the Grand Canyon, it is also found west, in...
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(the gneisses), (2) the Eparchean unconformity (Quartzose sandstones Overlying the granite with a distinct unconformity), (3) Puranas (formation of Cuddapah...
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Carolina bays consist of a few meters of sand and/or mud that rest on an unconformity above a harder substrate that does not show signs of deformation or other...
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Ojo Alamo Formation is divided into two subunits separated by a large unconformity—a gap in the geologic record. The lower Naashoibito member (sometimes...
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Tennessee, region. It fills depressions that are part of a regional unconformity at the base of Middle Ordovician strata, locally the Lenoir Limestone...
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over this first uplift, resulting in a local expression of the Great Unconformity. At about 500–300 million years ago, the region began to sink and sediments...
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