Sentence examples for unconformity on from inspiring English sources

Claims for a monolithic system began to weaken in 1854 with discovery of the famous unconformity on the River Onny in Shropshire, Eng., which indicates a natural break within the classic Silurian on its own home territory.

The tectonic epoch of the HVZ is expressed as a regional unconformity on land and a conspicuous reflector (Yellow horizon) in the bay at 0.7 Ma.

The Paleocene Eocene rock units (∼1500 m) rest along an unconformity on a Mesozoic granitic basement, and appear to have been accumulated in local depocenters in the hanging walls of the oblique-normal NW and SE Boundary Faults.

Thickness correlates with onlap and truncation of unconformities on the top and bottom of the Eagle Ford across the depositional area from the Maverick Basin in the south to the East Texas basin in the north (Donovan and Staerker 2010; Fig. 1a).

The Great Unconformity is one of the best examples of an exposed nonconformity, which is a type of unconformity that has bedded rock units above igneous or metamorphic rocks.

It concerns a pervasively silicified lithological unit, up to some tens of metres thick, which caps the unconformity landscapes developed on epicontinental Devonian Dinantian carbonates.

Diagenetic characteristics of unconformity and their influence on physical properties, quantitative research of diagenesis are the key limits to stratigraphic hydrocarbon reservoir exploration.

The age of the unconformity was estimated, based on seismic correlations with paleomagnetic chronozones, to be between 5 6 Ma, which was refined by stratigraphic simulations.

The overlying shale, the Kibbey Formation, was deposited on an unconformity, an ancient Mississippian-age karst erosion surface, and was not intruded by the dike.

The unconformity had a major influence on platform-margin architectures and depositional environments in the Palaeozoic carbonates below and above the unconformity.

Depending on sub-Unayzah unconformity, sub-middle Shajara local unconformity, the lower mudstone interval, and sub-Khuff unconformity (Fig. 2), the Shajara Formation was divided into three members, from base to top: the Lower Shajara, the Middle Shajara, and the Upper Shajara (Al-Khidir 2007).