'Unconformity' definitions:
Definition of 'Unconformity'
From: GCIDE
- Unconformity \Un`con*form"i*ty\, n.
- 1. Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Geol.) Want of parallelism between strata in contact. [1913 Webster]
- Note: 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. [1913 Webster]