Definition of Disconformities

1. disconformity [n] - See also: disconformity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disconformities

disconcertedness
disconcerting
disconcertingly
disconcertion
disconcertment
disconcertments
disconcerts
disconfirm
disconfirmation
disconfirmations
disconfirmed
disconfirmed expectancy
disconfirming
disconfirms
disconformable
disconformities (current term)
disconformity
discongruities
discongruity
disconjugate
disconjugate movement of eyes
disconnect
disconnectable
disconnected
disconnectedly
disconnectedness
disconnecting
disconnection
disconnection syndrome
disconnections

Literary usage of Disconformities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Comprehensive Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1921)
"We shall have occasion to call more especial attention to some of these disconformities when discussing the formations of the various systems. ..."

2. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"... the unconformities, in a broad general way, diminish from top to bottom of the diagram from A to F. disconformities are usually ascertained on the basis ..."

3. A Textbook of Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1921)
"We shall have occasion to call more especial attention to some of these disconformities when discussing the formations of the various systems. ..."

4. Starved Rock State Park and Its Environs by Carl Ortwin Sauer, Gilbert Haven Cady, Henry Chandler Cowles (1918)
"Unconformities and disconformities are not in themselves time indicators. ... Unconformities and disconformities are regarded as great when a great length ..."

5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"... several distinct formations, separated from one another and from the underlying and overlying formations by disconformities or stratigraphic breaks. ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1922)
"... hitherto unsuspected diastrophic movements of relatively small measure which have yielded disconformities that less careful scrutiny had overlooked; ..."

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