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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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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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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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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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 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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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 formation located in the Argentine Northwest and nearby parts of Bolivia...
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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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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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Subgroup Unconformity Cryogenian Umberatana Group Yerelina Subgroup Toorrowangee Group Teamsters Creek Subgroup Upalinna Subgroup Unconformity Euriowie...
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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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The surface stratum resulting is called an unconformity. Four types of unconformity: Angular unconformity: younger sediment lies upon an eroded surface...
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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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rocks forming the Great Unconformity. Where the Sixtymile Formation underlies the Tapeats Sandstone, the Great Unconformity lies at the base of the Sixtymile...
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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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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 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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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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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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known as the "Great Unconformity" which has been interpreted as a large-scale erosional event in the basement rock unit. This unconformity is used to correlate...
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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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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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erosional unconformity. The 2nd sequence stratigraphy displays a marine transgression, and ends with an erosional unconformity. This unconformity could be...
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is bound by two unconformities. The one at the top is the Taghanic unconformity and the one at the bottom is the Wallbridge Unconformity. The New Albany...
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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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