Category:Unconformity

Un`con*form"i*ty, n.

1. Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. South.

2. (geol.)

Defn: want of parallelism between strata in contact.

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.