• Onlap or overlap is the geological phenomenon of successively wedge-shaped younger rock strata extending progressively further across an erosion surface...
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  • The Taghanic event (Taghanic unconformity, Taghanic crisis or Taghanic onlap) was an extinction event that occurred about 386 million years ago during...
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    Cross-sectional diagrams illustrating the shift of sedimentary facies during transgression (onlap) and regression (offlap)...
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  • of reflections indicates the disappearance of bedding surfaces. Hence, onlap, down lap and top lap and other depositional features observed on surface...
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    marine facies are deposited over shallower facies, a succession called onlap. Regression is the situation in which a coastline moves in the direction...
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    paraconformities are called diastems. A buttress unconformity also known as onlap unconformity, occurs when younger bedding is deposited against older strata...
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  • onlap, and onlap of overlying strata". Similarly, a type 2 sequence boundary is "marked by subaerial exposure and a downward shift in coastal onlap landward...
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    Cross-sectional diagrams illustrating the shift of sedimentary facies during transgression (onlap) and regression (offlap)...
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    the interpretation of seismic profiles to determine the extent of coastal onlap in subsequently buried sedimentary basins. Murray-Wallace, C. V., & Woodroffe...
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    out significantly as it approaches the basin margins due to transgressive onlap. The Brushy Canyon Formation also contains small reef patches, ripple marks...
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    into two sections, the Upper Gault and the Lower Gault. The Upper Gault onlaps onto the Lower Gault. The Gault Formation thins across the London Platform...
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    expression of lunar soil development. The fillet is characterized by an onlap contact with the adjacent rock and by a shallow or concave profile. Associated...
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    the northern part of the basin; southward, progressively younger strata onlap the basement, so that in the southern areas the basement is overlain by...
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  • series rests upon progressively older members of the underlying series." An onlap is a more general term than overstep, in which the younger beds overlap...
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    synclinically folded, and that sediments of Tertiary age at the crater onlap its sides and thicken into its axis, suggesting that the salt was moving...
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    Ella Ø (Danish) The southwestern side of Ella Island in August 2007. An onlap of Devonian sandstone (right) on folded Cambrian-to-Ordovician rocks (left)...
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    Ouachita orogeny began and progressed from the north to the south, offlap and onlap stratigraphic geometries were produced. The orogeny contributed a large...
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    Australian Shield. Several Palaeozoic to neoproterozoic sedimentary basins onlap the Musgrave Block, and are exposed mostly around its edges. These were...
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    Gualanday Proximal deltaic-marine (C7) Reservoir 32 Oligo-Eocene C8 Usme C8 onlap Marine-deltaic (C8) Seal Source 35 Late Eocene Mirador Mirador Coastal (Mirador)...
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  • Gualanday Proximal deltaic-marine (C7) Reservoir 32 Oligo-Eocene C8 Usme C8 onlap Marine-deltaic (C8) Seal Source 35 Late Eocene Mirador Mirador Coastal (Mirador)...
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    overlies the Franciscan Assemblage along the west margin of its extent, and onlaps onto granitic rocks of the Sierra Nevada in the east. The rocks in Great...
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    Gualanday Proximal deltaic-marine (C7) Reservoir 32 Oligo-Eocene C8 Usme C8 onlap Marine-deltaic (C8) Seal Source 35 Late Eocene Mirador Mirador Coastal (Mirador)...
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    Gualanday Proximal deltaic-marine (C7) Reservoir 32 Oligo-Eocene C8 Usme C8 onlap Marine-deltaic (C8) Seal Source 35 Late Eocene Mirador Mirador Coastal (Mirador)...
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    change of sea level, part 3: relative changes of sea level from coastal onlap. AAPG Memoir 26. 205–212. . Daners, Gloria; Jorge Montaño; Héctor De Santa...
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    Gualanday Proximal deltaic-marine (C7) Reservoir 32 Oligo-Eocene C8 Usme C8 onlap Marine-deltaic (C8) Seal Source 35 Late Eocene Mirador Mirador Coastal (Mirador)...
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  • laterally equivalent to the lower part of the Abrigo Formation. To the east, it onlaps onto the underlying basement and its upper beds grade into the Bliss Formation...
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  • formation shows progressive unconformities that show up in seismic sections as onlap structures. U-Pb dating of the formation has provided ages ranging from...
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    Gualanday Proximal deltaic-marine (C7) Reservoir 32 Oligo-Eocene C8 Usme C8 onlap Marine-deltaic (C8) Seal Source 35 Late Eocene Mirador Mirador Coastal (Mirador)...
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    Gualanday Proximal deltaic-marine (C7) Reservoir 32 Oligo-Eocene C8 Usme C8 onlap Marine-deltaic (C8) Seal Source 35 Late Eocene Mirador Mirador Coastal (Mirador)...
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    response to plate reorganization following the opening of the Gulf of Aden. Onlap of the Miocene and younger stratigraphy on the southeast side of the ridge...
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