Sentence examples for unconformity to from inspiring English sources

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

Visiting in 1787, the geologist James Hutton found his first example of an unconformity to the north of Newton Point near Lochranza, which provided evidence for his Plutonist theories of uniformitarianism and about the age of the Earth.

Possible hydrocarbon migration is expected along fault breakouts and unconformities to adjoining prolific reservoir rocks.

The examples in this study show drowning unconformities to be exclusive to intrabasinal highs, while drowning successions are found both on highs and in hangingwall basins.

Especially, in the Himalayan period, Ordovician source rocks in the slope and depression continually generated hydrocarbons, and oil and gas migrated to the Middle and Lower Ordovician paleo-karst reservoirs in both sides of the paleo-uplift and both slopes (mainly along the unconformities) to form giant oil and gas fields in the gathering area (Xiang et al. 2010; Jin 2012) (Fig. 10).

Cores adjacent to the deep channel area of the Chesapeake Bay confirm this erosional unconformity prior to 12.7 ka.

The unconformity corresponding to a ca. 170-Ma hiatus (ca. 1347 1170 Ma) and carry evidence for ancient periglacial climatic conditions.

This unconformity appears to be an erosional type associated with onlap deposits and is correlated with the Late Oligocene top (~ 23 Ma).

There are three distinct sedimentary units mapped above a regional angular unconformity interpreted to be the Holocene transgressive surface in the seismic data.

The presence of an at least localized depositional hiatus (the "Tr-4 unconformity") prior to the incision of these channel systems is possible but ambiguous.

Periodic exposure of carbonate rocks which occurs during erosion that generated third-order unconformities contributed to the development of multiple karst intervals.