A contact between two rock units of significantly different ages. An unconformity is a gap in the time record for that location. In geology, unconformity describes a want of parallelism between strata in contact. 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.
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