Unconformity

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unconformity \Un`con*form"i*ty\, n.
     1. Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. --South.
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     2. (Geol.) Want of parallelism between strata in contact.
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     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.
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