Sentence examples for unconformity from from inspiring English sources

The age of the geological formations extends from Precambrian through Cretaceous to Tertiary with an unconformity from upper Coniacian to lower Campanian.

The prominent horizons on the seismic sections represent major unconformities from the Neogene to the Recent period.

This region exhibits a prograding basin wedge of fine-grained clastic and carbonate sections punctuated by several unconformities resulting from sea level fluctuations across the offshore region of Bonaparte Basin (Cadman and Temple 2003).

In recognition of this, we introduce the term Himalayan Unconformity to distinguish it from high strain zones in the Himalayan Metamorphic Front.

Unconformity ASS-u4 results from a major truncational event by glacial advance to the middle and outer shelf, which was followed by several episodes of glacial advance and retreat as observed from smaller-scale truncational unconformities within the units above ASS-u4.

High-quality carbonate reservoirs are usually distributed within 200 300 m from an unconformity.

During the E2 d 1 period, the Dainan Formation began to form and overlay the Funing Formation by an unconformity which had resulted from Wubao Movement.

An unconformity separating the Cretaceous from the Neogene sedimentary rocks is a prominent horizon observed throughout most seismic reflection profiles (e.g. von Huene et al., 1994; Tsuru et al., 2000).

However, the diagenetic evolution is mainly in the stage A of middle diagenesis, and its alteration degree has become gradually weak as the distance increased from the unconformity surface.

A major erosional unconformity separates the Mesozoic from the Tertiary units, which are composed exclusively of Eocene (Palaeocene deposits have not been identified), lower Oligocene and a portion of Pliocene sedimentary rocks (Sittler 1969a, b; Duringer 1988; Schuler 1990; Sissingh 1998, 2003; Berger et al. 2005; Ménillet et al. 2015).

However, if the slab breakoff model is valid, then this might also result in a flexural uplift of the foreland basin and the generation of a regional unconformity as the tear propagated from West into the central Himalaya.