Un`con*form"i*ty, n. 1.
Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency.
South.
2. (Geol.) Want of parallelism between
strata in contact.
&fist; 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.
Un`con*form"i*ty, n. 1.
Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency.
South.
2. (Geol.) Want of parallelism between
strata in contact.
&fist; 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.
