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Unconformable   Listen
adjective
Unconformable  adj.  
1.
Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming. "Moral evil is an action unconformable to it (the rule of our duty)."
2.
(Geol.) Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata.





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"Unconformable" Quotes from Famous Books



... around the Government House, one of these breaks appears at the apex of the hill, dividing its sides, which here incline towards the centre, exposing a wedge-formed supplementary part that fills up the interstice. In the grounds of the Admiralty House curious instances of unconformable strata are laid bare in old quarries. These indicate some other cause for their nonconformity than that before assigned, and I am quite at a loss to imagine how the stratified materials could have been ...
— The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II • Thomas Lord Cochrane


Words linked to "Unconformable" :   inconsistent


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