What is another word for Unconformity?
944 synonyms found
What is a continental unconformity?
How do geologists find an unconformity?
How do geologists identify an unconformity?
What is a subduction zone unreconformity?
Pronunciation:
[ ʌnkənfˈɔːmɪti], [ ʌnkənfˈɔːmɪti], [ ʌ_n_k_ə_n_f_ˈɔː_m_ɪ_t_i]
Unconformity is a geological term that describes a surface where rock layers are discontinuous. It is often used to describe a boundary in the rock sequence, where an erosion event or non-deposition has resulted in a gap in the record. Synonyms for unconformity include nonconformity, discordance, inconsistency, disparity, and discrepancy. Other terms that are commonly used in conjunction with unconformity are hiatus or a time gap. These synonyms reflect the concept of a discontinuity in the rock record and highlight the different aspects of unconformity, such as geological time, sedimentary layers, or structural relationships between rocks. Overall, these words help geologists communicate their observations and interpretations of the dynamic geological processes that are recorded in the rock record.
Related words: continental unconformity, subduction zone unconformity, geology unconformity, a young earth, unconfirmity
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Synonyms for Unconformity:
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• difference- Dissemblance ,
- antithesis ,
- characteristic ,
- contrariness ,
- digression ,
- non-conformity ,
- particularity ,
- separation ,
- unlikeness ,
- unorthodoxness .
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- crotchetiness ,
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- curio ,
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- deracination ,
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- design ,
- detachment ,
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- develop ,
- deviance ,
- device characteristic ,
- devil ,
- diarrhoea ,
- die ,
- differ ,
- difference of opinion ,
- direct contrast ,
- disagree ,
- disassociation ,
- disclose ,
- discombobulation ,
- disconnect ,
- disconnectedness ,
- discontinue ,
- discover ,
- discreteness ,
- disharmonious ,
- disjuncture ,
- dislodge ,
- disorderliness ,
- displacement reaction ,
- dispute ,
- disquiet ,
- disruption ,
- dissipation ,
- dissolution ,
- dissonant ,
- distaste ,
- distinctive feature ,
- distinctiveness ,
- distinctness ,
- distinguishing characteristic ,
- distortion ,
- distract ,
- divagation ,
- diverseness ,
- diversion ,
- dividing line ,
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- dustup ,
- duty period ,
- ease ,
- eating away ,
- edition ,
- effect ,
- elision ,
- embroilment ,
- eminence ,
- encroachment ,
- endocarp ,
- enemy ,
- engagement ,
- equivocalness ,
- eroding ,
- erupt ,
- essence ,
- excessiveness ,
- exchange ,
- exclusion ,
- exclusive right ,
- excogitation ,
- excursion ,
- excursus ,
- exit ,
- expiration ,
- expose ,
- extra ,
- fail ,
- faithful ,
- faithlessness ,
- fall apart ,
- fall in ,
- fallal ,
- falling out ,
- falseness ,
- fault ,
- favor ,
- favour ,
- feature ,
- ferment ,
- fickleness ,
- fiend ,
- fight ,
- fix ,
- fleece ,
- flex ,
- flexure ,
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- flinty ,
- flirt ,
- flock ,
- flux ,
- foe ,
- foeman ,
- foible ,
- fold up ,
- folding ,
- foliaceous ,
- foliate ,
- foreignness ,
- form ,
- foundation ,
- founder ,
- founding ,
- four ,
- foursome ,
- fourth ,
- fracture ,
- freak out ,
- freakishness ,
- freedom ,
- freshness ,
- fuddle ,
- fuse ,
- fuss ,
- gall ,
- gaolbreak ,
- gap ,
- gaud ,
- gem ,
- gemstone ,
- genetic mutation ,
- geologic ,
- geological fault ,
- geometrical irregularity ,
- geomorphic ,
- get around ,
- get out ,
- gewgaw ,
- giant ,
- gist ,
- give ,
- give away ,
- give out ,
- give way ,
- glacial epoch ,
- go ,
- go against ,
- go bad ,
- going ,
- going away ,
- gold-bearing ,
- goliath ,
- good deal ,
- good luck ,
- good turn ,
- granitelike ,
- granitic ,
- granting immunity ,
- great deal ,
- grind ,
- gross out ,
- grow ,
- grumpiness ,
- gulf ,
- gyration ,
- haggle ,
- haggling ,
- happy chance ,
- harlan f. stone ,
- harlan fisk stone ,
- harshness ,
- haschisch ,
- hashish ,
- hate ,
- hatful ,
- heap ,
- heart ,
- heart and soul ,
- hesitation ,
- heterodoxy ,
- heterogeneousness ,
- hole ,
- hotchpotch ,
- huddle together ,
- illogic ,
- illogicality ,
- illogicalness ,
- imbalance ,
- immix ,
- immunity ,
- impudence ,
- incongruousness ,
- indentation ,
- independency ,
- infract ,
- infrequency ,
- infringe ,
- inharmonic ,
- inharmoniousness ,
- initiation ,
- inordinateness ,
- insolence ,
- instauration ,
- institution ,
- integrate ,
- interchange ,
- intermission ,
- intermit ,
- intermixture ,
- interrupt ,
- interruption ,
- interval ,
- introduction ,
- invasion ,
- invention ,
- inwardness ,
- irrelevance ,
- iv ,
- jailbreak ,
- jam ,
- jolting ,
- jolty ,
- jumbal ,
- jumpy ,
- junkie ,
- junky ,
- kernel ,
- kettle of fish ,
- kick downstairs ,
- kind ,
- kink ,
- knickknack ,
- lapidate ,
- laxness ,
- leaving ,
- leeway ,
- legal separation ,
- let on ,
- let out ,
- licentiousness ,
- limiting ,
- line ,
- load ,
- log ,
- looseness of the bowels ,
- loss ,
- lot ,
- low density ,
- lurch ,
- magnetic core ,
- magnetic declination ,
- magnetic variation ,
- mannerism ,
- mare's nest ,
- margin ,
- marrow ,
- mass ,
- meat ,
- melange ,
- meld ,
- mental confusion ,
- mental defectiveness ,
- mental unsoundness ,
- merge ,
- mess hall ,
- mess up ,
- messiness ,
- mickle ,
- mingle ,
- mingle-mangle ,
- mint ,
- misapprehension ,
- miscellanea ,
- miscellany ,
- miscreation ,
- misfunction ,
- misinterpretation ,
- misshapenness ,
- mistake ,
- mistaking ,
- mix in ,
- mix up ,
- mix-up ,
- mixed bag ,
- mixing ,
- modify ,
- motley ,
- mountain ,
- move around ,
- muckle ,
- muddiness ,
- mussiness ,
- mutableness ,
- mutual exclusiveness ,
- nauseate ,
- naval division ,
- nimiety ,
- nitty-gritty ,
- noise ,
- nonconformance ,
- nonconformism ,
- note ,
- nub ,
- nucleus ,
- number ,
- nut ,
- obdurate ,
- objection ,
- oddment ,
- oddments ,
- oddness ,
- odds and ends ,
- offend ,
- ogre ,
- omnium-gatherum ,
- open frame ,
- opponent ,
- opposite ,
- oppositeness ,
- optical aberration ,
- origination ,
- otherness ,
- outlawry ,
- overabundance ,
- overindulgence ,
- overthrow ,
- pandemonium ,
- parenthesis ,
- part ,
- partition ,
- partitioning ,
- passel ,
- passing ,
- pastiche ,
- patchwork ,
- pause ,
- peck ,
- pen up ,
- perkiness ,
- perquisite ,
- pertness ,
- perturb ,
- perverseness ,
- perversity ,
- philander ,
- pickle ,
- pile ,
- pit ,
- pitch ,
- pith ,
- pitting ,
- plate tectonic theory ,
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- pound ,
- powwow ,
- preeminence ,
- premix ,
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- prison-breaking ,
- prisonbreak ,
- profligacy ,
- protestation ,
- puddle ,
- quadruplet ,
- qualifying ,
- quarrel ,
- quartet ,
- quatern ,
- quaternary period ,
- quaternate ,
- quaternion ,
- quaternity ,
- queerness ,
- quirkiness ,
- quite a little ,
- racket ,
- raft ,
- ragbag ,
- raggedness ,
- rareness ,
- recalcitrancy ,
- recess ,
- recrudesce ,
- redundant ,
- refraction ,
- refractoriness ,
- release ,
- relegate ,
- remainder ,
- remissness ,
- repel ,
- reposition ,
- repulsion ,
- resist ,
- resistance ,
- respite ,
- reveal ,
- reverse ,
- revision ,
- revolt ,
- revulsion ,
- rick ,
- rift ,
- rock 'n' roll ,
- rock and roll ,
- rock candy ,
- rock music ,
- rock'n'roll ,
- rock-and-roll ,
- rocklike ,
- romance ,
- rotation ,
- rough ,
- rough water ,
- round ,
- routine ,
- row ,
- rowdiness ,
- rowdyism ,
- ruffle ,
- ruin ,
- run afoul ,
- run-in ,
- rupture ,
- sack ,
- salmagundi ,
- sandlike ,
- sauciness ,
- scramble ,
- section ,
- sectionalisation ,
- sectionalization ,
- segmentation ,
- separate ,
- severalty ,
- severance ,
- shake ,
- sheep pen ,
- sheepcote ,
- sheepfold ,
- sheer ,
- shift key ,
- shifting ,
- shimmy ,
- shuffle ,
- shut down ,
- sicken ,
- sight ,
- slackness ,
- slew ,
- slip ,
- slue ,
- smash ,
- smorgasbord ,
- smother ,
- snap off ,
- soften ,
- sort ,
- sour ,
- spare ,
- spat ,
- spate ,
- specialisation ,
- speciality ,
- specialization ,
- specialness ,
- specialty ,
- spell ,
- split ,
- split up ,
- sport ,
- sprain ,
- squabble ,
- squash ,
- squeeze ,
- squelch ,
- stack ,
- stir ,
- stoop ,
- stop ,
- strife ,
- struggle ,
- substance ,
- sum ,
- supererogatory ,
- superfluous ,
- supernumerary ,
- supplanting ,
- surfeit ,
- surplus ,
- surplusage ,
- suspension ,
- sway ,
- swerving ,
- switch ,
- switching ,
- take issue ,
- tectonics ,
- teddy ,
- tenuity ,
- teras ,
- tetrad ,
- throw together ,
- tidy sum ,
- tiff ,
- tilt ,
- timber ,
- time out ,
- tolerance ,
- topsy-turvydom ,
- topsy-turvyness ,
- tour ,
- transfer ,
- transformation ,
- transgress ,
- translation ,
- transmutation ,
- trend ,
- trespass ,
- trinket ,
- trouble ,
- turn away ,
- turn of events ,
- turn over ,
- turn up ,
- turning ,
- tussle ,
- twist ,
- unbalance ,
- uncover ,
- unfamiliarity ,
- unhinge ,
- unify ,
- unmanageableness ,
- unregularity ,
- unsimilarity ,
- unstableness ,
- unusual person ,
- unwrap ,
- upset ,
- usurpation ,
- vacillant ,
- vacillating ,
- vacillation ,
- valuation account ,
- valuation reserve ,
- variableness ,
- variant ,
- variety show ,
- vary ,
- veer ,
- veering ,
- version ,
- violate ,
- violation ,
- wad ,
- waker ,
- warp ,
- weaken ,
- wear ,
- wear out ,
- wearing ,
- wearing away ,
- welsh ,
- welshman ,
- welter ,
- wind ,
- wobble ,
- words ,
- work ,
- work shift ,
- wrangling ,
- wrench ,
- wrick ,
- yaw .
- Abnormity ,
- Antinomy ,
- Disconformity ,
- Discongruity ,
- Incommensurability ,
- Inconformity ,
- Incongruence ,
- Inconnection ,
- Inconsonance ,
- Irreconcilability ,
- Irrelation ,
- Misrelation ,
- Multiformity ,
- Self-contradiction ,
- aberration ,
- abnormality ,
- alteration ,
- ambiguity ,
- ambivalence ,
- anarchism ,
- anarchy ,
- anomalousness ,
- anomaly ,
- antipathy ,
- asymmetry ,
- bickering ,
- breach ,
- breach of law ,
- change ,
- chaos ,
- clashing ,
- conflict ,
- confusedness ,
- confusion ,
- contradiction ,
- contrariety ,
- contrast ,
- departure ,
- derangement ,
- deviation ,
- differentiation ,
- disaccord ,
- disagreement ,
- disarray ,
- disconnection ,
- discord ,
- discordance ,
- discordant ,
- discrepancy ,
- disgust ,
- disharmony ,
- disjunction ,
- disobedience ,
- disorder ,
- disparity ,
- disproportion ,
- dissension ,
- dissidence ,
- dissimilarity ,
- dissimilitude ,
- dissociation ,
- dissonance ,
- distinction ,
- disunion ,
- divarication ,
- divergence ,
- diversification ,
- diversity ,
- division ,
- eccentricity ,
- exception ,
- far cry ,
- farrago ,
- freak ,
- hash ,
- hatred ,
- heresy ,
- heterogeneity ,
- hodgepodge ,
- horror ,
- hotch-potch ,
- huddle ,
- idiosyncrasy ,
- illicitness ,
- imbroglio ,
- impertinence ,
- inapplicability ,
- incompatibility ,
- inconsequence ,
- inconstancy ,
- independence ,
- inequality ,
- informality ,
- instability ,
- intrusion ,
- irreconcilableness ,
- irrelevancy ,
- jarring ,
- jumble ,
- lawlessness ,
- litter ,
- lumber ,
- mash ,
- medley ,
- mesalliance ,
- mess ,
- mishmash ,
- misunderstanding ,
- mix ,
- mixture ,
- monster ,
- monstrosity ,
- muddle ,
- multifariousness ,
- muss ,
- mutability ,
- mutant ,
- mutation ,
- nihil ad rem ,
- noncompliance ,
- nonconformity ,
- nonobservance ,
- oddity ,
- odds ,
- opposition ,
- originality ,
- oxymoron ,
- paradox ,
- peculiarity ,
- pluralism ,
- protest ,
- rarity ,
- recalcitrance ,
- repugnance ,
- roughness ,
- rouser ,
- separateness ,
- singularity ,
- uncommonness ,
- unconformable ,
- unconventionality ,
- unevenness ,
- unorthodoxy ,
- untidiness ,
- unusualness ,
- variability ,
- variance ,
- variegation ,
- variety ,
- versatility ,
- wavering ,
- wrangle .
How to use "Unconformity" in context?
What is an Unconformity?
An unconformity is a geological feature that is not in the general plan or sequence of layers of the Earth's surface. Many unconformities are associated with thick sedimentary beds, which are difficult to cross. The most significant unconformity in the Appalachian mountains is the New York-New Jersey Highland Boundary, which separates the thin sheets of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic periods.
Paraphrases for Unconformity:
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Independent
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discrepancy, inconsistency, mismatch.
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discordance, dissonance.
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