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Hutton's Unconformity at Jedburgh, Scotland, illustrated by John Clerk in 1787 and photographed in 2003.. An unconformity is a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous.
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A prominent exposure of Powell's Great Unconformity occurs in Frenchman Mountain in Nevada.Frenchman Mountain exposes a sequence of Phanerozoic strata equivalent to those found in the Grand Canyon.
Sequence stratigraphy is a branch of geology, specifically a branch of stratigraphy, that attempts to discern and understand historic geology through time by subdividing and linking sedimentary deposits into unconformity bounded units on a variety of scales.
Hutton's Unconformity is a name given to various notable geological sites in Scotland identified by the 18th-century Scottish geologist James Hutton as places where the junction between two types of rock formations can be seen.
Geologists do not know if sediments were deposited in these periods and were later removed by erosion or if they were never deposited in the first place. [34] Either way, this break in the geologic history of the area spans about 65 million years. A type of unconformity called a disconformity was formed. [35]
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In the area of Desert View and west of Palisades of the Desert, the basaltic sills form very prominent, dark gray cliffs. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 8 ] Using gravity and aeromagnetic data, combined with gravity modeling, it was inferred that Proterozoic grabens, and half-grabens filled with strata of the Unkar Group – lie buried beneath Phanerozoic rocks ...